Our Growth Mindset (The Mission):

Think back on your time in school and a project or experience that got you fired up, curious, and motivated to try your best. Can you remember one? If you’re like us, there are some projects we remember decades later -- those times when we were so engaged in what we were doing that we couldn’t help but learn.

Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by millions of K-12 students in over 75% of the schools in the U.S.

The Curriculum (Your Role):

As a QA Automation Engineer on our Schools & Admins team, you’ll oversee the planning, development, and execution of automated and manual test suites for new features. You will create a meaningful impact on our team by implementing automation strategies that help us ship with confidence and speed. Your role will be crucial to delivering a high quality product and top notch experience to school administrators who support millions of students in their growth and learning.

Your Classmates (The Team):

The Schools & Admins team ensures schools, districts, and administrators can successfully implement Seesaw school-wide as their platform for teaching, learning, and communication. This includes all aspects of Seesaw’s paid product for schools and districts such as the setup experience, rostering services, the school/district-wide content library, and more. We're also a small and collaborative team so you'll have plenty of opportunities to work closely with all other engineers, PMs, and Designers on our broader product and engineering team.

Subject Matter (Your Responsibilities):

• Design and implement maintainable test automation solutions that reduce functional regression testing time and enable developers to better test their code. The automation coverage will at the functional, integration, API, and backend layer of our app.
• Collaborate with engineers to analyze test failures and continuously improve the robustness of existing test suites.
• Develop a deep understanding of our schools and districts product, in particular critical setup, implementation, and management features for district and school administrators. 
• Advocate for best engineering quality practices and foster a culture of pride around delivering quality software.
• Work closely with the product team to develop and execute test strategies for new features and functionality.

Prerequisites (The Requirements):

• Have a strong understanding of QA automation architecture, methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• 5+ years of experience working with test automation framework and is comfortable with writing automation scripts (API, integration, and UI). The best candidates will have built, deployed, and maintained automation frameworks for unit tests, integration tests, and e2e tests.
• Prior experience with API and integration testing strongly preferred as you will be expanding automation coverage for our district setup experience and rostering services.
• Direct experience in building and maintaining test suites with intricate test data setup.
• You take ownership of initiatives and make pragmatic technical decisions.
• Nice to have: you are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack, especially ones that will improve our testing effectiveness, capabilities, and coverage.

A little about us:

We are well funded and have an experienced team. Work with the creators & leads of Google Calendar, Picasa, Maps, Facebook Platform, and Twitter.

We care about building a diverse and inclusive team to better advocate for the needs of our incredibly diverse K-12 users.

We prioritize work-life balance and actually walk the walk -- we care a lot about our work, but care more about our friends and family. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have an unlimited vacation policy that people actually use.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave, flexible vacation policy, free lunch, wellness stipend, and charitable donation match.

Don't let the confidence gap get in the way of applying! We'd love to hear from you.

Seesaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity/gender expression/transgender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, or military or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Seesaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.