Senior QA Engineer

WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over 2 years old, and more than 6 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

Senior QA Engineer

The Senior QA Engineer at MagicSchool.ai will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our products. This is not a role where you simply execute test scripts — you’ll be an active partner in QA strategy, helping engineering define what and how to test while driving best practices across the organization.

You won’t be responsible for writing every test yourself — instead, you’ll enable engineers to build quality into their code, own the QA infrastructure, and ensure we have the right testing coverage where it matters most. You’ll balance ad-hoc manual testing, regression testing, and business-critical path validation with automation strategies to make sure we deliver a delightful, reliable user experience.

Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for:

1. Driving QA Strategy & Infrastructure

• Be an active partner in shaping our QA approach and processes.

• Define testing strategies across frontend, backend, and API layers to ensure we test the right things at the right level.

• Help engineers define and write tests but not own every test — especially unit tests.

• Establish and maintain the QA infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling needed for efficient testing at scale.

2. Testing Execution & Coverage

• Perform ad-hoc manual testing for new features and high-risk areas.

• Design and execute regression testing plans to prevent unexpected breakages.

• Lead business-critical path testing to ensure the core user flows always work flawlessly.

• Build and maintain automated test suites where they drive significant value — especially around integration, end-to-end, and regression testing.

3. Partnering with all of Engineering & Product

• Work closely with engineers to embed quality into the development process from day one.

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define acceptance criteria, edge cases, and risk areas early in the lifecycle.

• Advocate for quality-first thinking, ensuring we deliver features that are not only functional but also robust and reliable.

• Act as a bridge between engineering, product, and users to make sure we’re building the right things and validating them thoroughly.

Qualifications / Competencies / Skills

• Gets a lot done: Proactive, resourceful, and committed to shipping high-quality products.

• Strategic thinker: Understands when to automate, when to test manually, and where to focus coverage.

• Collaborative mindset: Builds strong relationships with engineers and product managers, working together to raise the quality bar.

• Quality advocate: Passionate about preventing bugs rather than just finding them.

• Technical proficiency:

  • Experience with test automation frameworks.

  • Working knowledge of TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js preferred).

  • Familiarity with API testing (REST, GraphQL) and tools like Postman or similar.

  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and integration of tests into automated deployments.

  • Familiarity with load/performance testing, and monitoring tools.

  • Experience leveraging generative AI in a QA test automation context

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in QA or software engineering, with a focus on test strategy, infrastructure, and automation, including mentoring or leading QA initiatives.

• Preferred: Startup experience, thriving in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.

• Join a mission-driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.

• Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team - no matter where they live.

• Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance. We work hard for our teachers and users, and encourage our employees to rest and take the time they need.

• Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.

• Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.

• Plus a 401k match & monthly wellness stipend

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic:  Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.

• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

• Community:  Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.

• Innovation:  The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.

• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.

• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.

• Excellence:  Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.