QA Engineering, Test Orchestration

Title: QA Engineer, Test Orchestration
Location: Remote
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Employment Type: Exempt / Full-Time

About StrongMind

StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company on a mission to transform learning for students, families, and educators across the country. For more than 25 years, we’ve partnered with schools and districts to deliver innovative, student-centered learning experiences powered by technology, compassion, and bold thinking.

We believe education should be flexible, human, and built for real life. That belief shapes how we design our products, support our partners, and work together as a team. At StrongMind, you’ll find smart people doing meaningful work, a culture rooted in trust and accountability, and leaders who genuinely care about both outcomes and people.

The Team You Will Join

You’ll be part of StrongMind’s Engineering organization, working closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Release, Principal Engineers, and QA peers across multiple product teams.

The team is responsible for building scalable, reliable, and increasingly AI-enabled learning systems while maintaining a high standard of product quality. In this role, you’ll help strengthen how StrongMind validates software before release by developing modern testing strategies, improving automation and regression practices, and helping teams build quality into the development process.

The team culture is collaborative, innovative, and focused on continuous improvement. You’ll have opportunities to influence quality standards, mentor peers, and help shape how AI and automation are used to improve software quality across StrongMind.

The Difference You Will Make

In this role, your work will directly impact the reliability and quality of StrongMind’s learning products by building testing systems and strategies that increase coverage, accelerate feedback, and reduce release risk.

You’ll own the regression testing strategy and help establish clear testing procedures and quality gates in partnership with Release. You’ll also help engineering teams improve testability, failure visibility, and CI/CD signal quality.

Rather than treating quality as a bottleneck, you’ll help build a scalable quality system that allows StrongMind to move quickly while maintaining confidence in what we release.

A Typical Day Looks Like

While no two days are exactly the same, you can expect to:

• Design, build, and operate AI-driven testing workflows using agents, automation, and orchestration to expand test coverage and accelerate feedback.
• Develop and maintain an end-to-end regression strategy, including test prioritization, risk-based coverage, and suite maintainability.
• Partner with Release to define testing procedures, quality gates, exit criteria, and go/no-go recommendations for production readiness.
• Optimize regression testing through intelligent test selection, parallelization, flaky-test remediation, and risk-based coverage.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to improve testability, failure observability, and signal-to-noise within CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze release risk, failure patterns, and escaped defects to identify opportunities for additional automation and prevention.
• Establish and promote shared QA standards, test-design practices, and regression strategies across product teams.
• Use AI tooling thoughtfully by prompting, evaluating, and governing agentic test generation and triage to ensure results remain accurate and trustworthy.
• Mentor QA peers and help engineering teams adopt modern testing and quality practices.
• Participate in release readiness reviews and post-incident learning sessions to strengthen future prevention.
• This position requires availability to work core business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Arizona time, Monday through Friday.

This role balances independent problem-solving, technical execution, collaboration, and strategic thinking and is well-suited for someone who enjoys building scalable systems, solving complex quality challenges, and finding ways to improve both speed and reliability.

Your Expertise Includes

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Proven experience owning QA strategy, test automation, and release readiness within production software environments.
• Strong knowledge of test orchestration, including coordinating multi-step test pipelines, agents, jobs, and environments across CI/CD and release processes.
• Demonstrated ability to design regression suites that balance comprehensive coverage with speed through test selection, sharding, prioritization, and parallel execution.
• Strong foundation in test design, including risk-based testing, exploratory testing, automation frameworks, and failure triage.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted testing, agentic workflows, or LLM-enabled quality tooling.
• Experience partnering with Release or DevOps teams on testing procedures, quality gates, and production readiness criteria.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and make clear trade-offs between coverage, speed, and release risk.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate quality status, risk, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical partners.
• A systems-minded approach to quality, with a focus on building scalable processes rather than creating testing bottlenecks.
• Alignment with StrongMind’s core values: Kindness, Accountability, Collaboration, Innovation, and Grit.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar end-to-end testing frameworks at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD and distributed test execution, including GitHub Actions, AWS, or similar technologies.
• Experience reducing flaky tests and improving pipeline reliability and signal quality.
• Experience defining QA standards, playbooks, or cross-team quality frameworks.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated tests for correctness, coverage value, and maintainability.
• Experience in EdTech or other mission-driven product environments.

Success in This Role

Success in this role means building quality that scales.

You’ll be succeeding when:

• AI-powered testing workflows expand coverage and accelerate feedback.
• Release-testing procedures and quality gates are clearly defined and consistently understood across teams.
• Regression practices maximize meaningful coverage without unnecessarily slowing delivery.
• Escaped defects decrease and release feedback loops become shorter.
• Engineering teams have stronger testability, failure observability, and CI/CD signal quality.
• QA practices and standards become more consistent across product teams.
• Quality becomes an integrated part of the development process rather than a bottleneck to delivery.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

At StrongMind, we believe the best ideas come from bringing together people with different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. A diverse and inclusive workplace fuels creativity, strengthens collaboration, and helps us build better solutions for the students, families, and communities we serve.

We are committed to welcoming a broad range of talent and encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is empowered to contribute, grow, and do meaningful work.

How We’ll Take Care of You

We believe that when people feel supported, they do their best work. At StrongMind, your well-being isn’t a perk—it’s part of our culture.

Our commitment to you includes:

• A competitive total compensation package, including medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits.
• Well-being that works for real life—from an on-site gym, virtual wellness programs, and wellness coaching to flexible work options for select roles, because your well-being fuels your brilliance.
• Unlimited PTO for exempt roles, plus additional “life happens” days when you need flexibility.
• A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas, so you can truly rest, reset, and reconnect.
• Recognition and rewards that celebrate birthdays, meaningful milestones, legendary work, and community service hours that let you give back.
• Quarterly Town Halls that keep communication transparent, honest, and human.
• Annual social events and traditions we genuinely look forward to—like Halloween celebrations, Wellness Fairs, and other moments that bring our community together.

We’re intentional about building a workplace where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to thrive—at work and beyond.

Additional Info:

We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide consideration to all applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, marital status, or disability protected by law.