Software QA Engineer - Recent Grad

SchooLinks is a fast-moving startup and a leader in education technology. Our mission is to leverage technology to make access to opportunities ubiquitous. As a product and engineering team, we accomplish this mission by delivering a best-in-class product that delights students, parents, and the staff that supports them. We ship a lot of code and new features in fast iterations and thus we're looking for a self starter who can learn the software testing craft quickly and then own quality for their respective team.

We are looking for a recent college or boot camp grad ("recent" = previous 12 months) to join our team and learn the challenging and rewarding career of software testing. Although we are a remote company, our requirement for this role is someone who is based in the Austin, TX area and has the flexibility to come to our downtown office at least 3 times per week.

If you're interested in starting your career in technology, SchooLinks is a great place to be. There are plenty of opportunities to learn, expand your career, and grow into different areas outside of QA such as software development, design, and product management.

We presently do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.

This role will need to work standard US hours, and will need to come into the office in downtown Austin, TX at least 3 days er week.

Your role:

• You'll be the QA Engineer on a team whose main goal is to deliver an exciting product that our customers love
• You will be responsible for ensuring that the product we deliver is of the highest quality
• Planning, documenting, and executing test procedures for new features, bug fixes, and improvements
• This will be mainly manual testing, but could expand to automated testing as well
• Documenting clear and concise bug write ups so developers understand them the first time
• Root cause analysis and investigation of bugs
• Identifying and championing process improvements that will help us increase quality and speed

Requirements

• Recent college degree or completion of a coding boot camp or other similar program completion
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and document complex business logic - your challenge will be to learn new concepts and application features from our planning meetings and documentation and then apply them to your testing process
• Excellent communication skills; written and verbal
• Solid organizational skills and time management skills
• An eye for design details and polish (the quality of our site is key to our business identity)

Nice to haves

• Prior software testing experience (but we really are looking for a recent grad for this role)
• Automated testing experience
• Playwright
• Postman
• Locust
• Coding or scripting experience
• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Django ORM
• Experience with:
• Chrome dev tools
• REST APIs
• SQL databases
• Jira, GitHub, Sentry

Interview/Hiring Process

• Selected candidates will be asked to submit a one way video interview through our hiring portal. This will be a series of questions that you will record yourself answering.
• You will also be sent a few hiring challenges where you will have an opportunity to show us the type of work and attention to detail you are capable of
• Interviews with the hiring manager, the team, and VP of Engineering
• Background and reference check
• We will receive a lot of applications, please be patient with us while we work through them all

Benefits

• WFH 2 days per week
• snacks, drinks, coffee provided in office
• Healthcare plan including vision and dental
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
• 401k plan with matching up to 1%
• Competitive Salary
• Long term employment with considerations for promotion and raises every 6 months