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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.
Position Overview
We are looking for a QA Manager that can straddle managerial and individual contributor responsibilities. This person will be managing a team of QA engineering within the Data and AI/ML organization, while also being hands-on with our new literacy screener solution - our first direct student assessment product.
As a manager, you will help grow and mature the QA function within the organization and entire engineering organization. You will partner with other QA leaders (technical and managerial) to refine our processes. Balance the needs of manual QA and automated QA work. Oversee the work of QA team members as they embed themselves into the project teams they support.
As a hands-on contributor, you will spend about 50% of your time with the literacy screener efforts. You will work to understand and execute the QA required for AI/ML solutions, and work in close collaboration with the machine learning engineer as the solution moves to production.
You will be a champion of quality and always put the needs of the customer first. You will convey information about the quality state of the product and continuously find ways to make it better. You will work closely with developers, product managers, operations engineers, and other QA engineers to deliver meaningful updates. We need someone who has a knack for breaking stuff, knows a lot about QA and leadership, and is ready to learn more.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities
- Supervises, coaches and mentors a team of QA Engineers
- Tracks and reports status and progress
- Creates and champions QA processes and standards
- Coordinates closely with Dev and Product Managers and QA Engineers
- Helps to validate new features and fixes on product releases
- Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings
Qualifications
- Success managing QA teams, preferably with an embedded structure
- Recent hands-on experience with QA tools and technologies, including Playwright, JavaScript, Xray, and Jenkins
- Experience with agile processes and the Atlassian suite of Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
- Experience with QA'ing machine learning (ML) models and data pipelines. Experience with both back-end and front-end systems with an eye towards automation
- Deep experience with performance, security and accessibility testing with a commitment to following security best practices
- Empathy, patience, rigor, grit and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely
- Interest in modern technologies and languages and how to innovate with them
- Highly collaborative work style and a bias for action
- Creativity and initiative to succeed on ambiguous problems
- High level of self-starter, learning, and initiative behaviors
Why Teaching Strategies
At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!
Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. 
