Senior Quality Engineer, Khan Academy
24 Months Fixed Term
$127.4-159.3k
For Canadian applicants the range is $172,188 - $215,235 CAN
Nonprofit online education platform
Open for applications
Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$127.4-159.3k
For Canadian applicants the range is $172,188 - $215,235 CAN
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in software product testing and test automation with a focus on quality engineering
- Proficiency in test automation tools like Cypress, with hands-on experience writing and maintaining automated tests
- Strong manual testing skills, capable of designing and executing thorough test cases
- Hands-on experience using AI development tools to accelerate the QE role in novel ways
- Experience shaping an engineering team’s quality strategy
- Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript for test automation and Python for backend testing, with an openness to learning new tools, systems, and languages.Experience in UNIX/Linux environments, and familiarity with using virtual machines or containers
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins
- Knowledge of accessibility testing, including automated a11y testing, and familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines
- Excellent documentation and communication skills to effectively collaborate and enhance testing processes
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams—product managers, designers, engineers, educational content creators, and support staff—to ensure product quality and reliability
- Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
- Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to onboarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies
- If you’re looking for the opportunity to grow as a Quality expert, ensuring Khan Academy ships high-quality products that solve real problems for learners and educators, we’d love to hear from you. Even if you don’t check every box (no one does), we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- As a Senior Quality Engineer at Khan Academy for a 24 months fixed term, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our web-based products used by schools and learners to improve educational outcomes
- You will engage in both manual testing and test automation, developing and maintaining automated tests to detect regressions while also performing comprehensive manual testing of new features
- Working within a cross-functional product development team, you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and support teams to advocate for exceptional user experiences through all stages of the product design and development lifecycle
- Your strong communication skills, keen eye, creativity, and experience in automated test development at all levels (frontend, backend, white box, and black box) will be key to your success in this role
- Leveraging your experience with AI tooling to accelerate the discipline of Quality Engineering on your team and across the department
- In collaboration with your manager, defining your team’s quality strategy (thresholds for good quality, plans for investing in different types of testing, etc), then working with teammates to bring it to fruition
- Owning manual test plan development and execution for new features on the team
- Building and maintaining new test automation to fill coverage gaps using insights from manual testing, stakeholder priorities, and industry best practices
- Collaborating with cross-functional partners throughout the SDLC, including planning, design reviews, and development discussions to ensure quality is considered from the beginning
- Using your creativity and extensive knowledge of testing tools and frameworks to find, document, and track bugs
- Contribute to engineering guilds such as the Quality and Accessibility guilds, and participate in organizational affinity groups to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment
Our take
Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.
With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institutions' banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.
The company offers its tools completely for free, instead of relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2020
$3m
GRANT
Oct 2017
$3m
GRANT
Total funding: $16.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Dental insurance
- Optical insurance
- Life insurance
- Performance bonus
- 401K plan
- Family medical leave
- Diversity program
- Pet friendly workplace
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Caroline Hu Flexer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Holds a BA in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.
Salman Khan
(Co-Founder & Executive Director)They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.
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