Manual Quality Assurance Engineer, Speechify
SIMBA Team
+ commission + equity
AI text-to-speech reader
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AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ commission + equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in manual QA testing, with a strong focus on Web applications
- Strong understanding of QA fundamentals including test planning, test case design, regression testing, exploratory testing, and bug reporting
- Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating cross functionally with engineering and product teams
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to isolate root causes and communicate issues clearly
- Strong written communication skills, especially when documenting defects and test results
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Linear, or similar bug tracking/project management systems
- Experience using browser developer tools to assist with debugging and issue reproduction
Desirable
- Experience with accessibility testing and familiarity with WCAG guidelines
- Familiarity with text-to-speech technologies or audio-based products
- Exposure to test automation tools (even if not responsible for building automation)
- Experience validating APIs using tools like Postman
What the job involves
- Our team is committed to changing the way people read and with our exponential growth, we are looking for a strong QA engineer to help us for our SIMBA Team. We love a commitment to quality and risk assessment, maintaining documentation, and curiosity of testing trends and industry standards
- Develop and execute detailed manual test plans and test cases for the SIMBA Team, ensuring strong functional coverage across core user flows and edge cases
- Perform hands-on manual testing across browsers and devices to validate new features, bug fixes, and releases
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product teams to identify, reproduce, isolate, and document defects, providing clear steps, expected vs. actual results, and supporting evidence
- Maintain clear and organized QA documentation, including test cases, regression suites, test reports, and release validation summaries
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Support to ensure issues are triaged correctly and prioritized based on user impact
- Participate in Agile workflows including daily standups, sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives, ensuring QA is embedded throughout the development lifecycle
- Execute regression testing and release validation to ensure product quality and stability prior to launch
- Continuously identify ways to improve manual QA processes, test coverage, and communication between teams
Our take
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension make it easy for users to listen to emails, text documents, e-books, PDFs, online blogs, and articles in a variety of voices, languages, and speeds.
Text-to-speech technology has been fraught with performance issues for a long time, though in recent years this has begun to change for the better. Products like Amazon Polly, Linguatech Voice Reader, and Natural Reader have made real inroads on this front. What may set Speechify apart, however, is the insight of founder Cliff Weitzman, who built the app to help people with dyslexia, ADHD, vision impairments and other learning difficulties.
The company’s future growth may depend largely on who it targets and how it does so. Thus far, it’s been mostly branded as a learning assistant, lauded by parents, teachers and adult users with reading disabilities. This niche approach is interesting and offers a potentially large market in the education sector. However, the technology also has mainstream appeal, with the potential to be branded as a productivity booster or multi-tasking assistant.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Leadership
Cliff Weitzman
(Founder & CEO)Having studied at Brown University, Cliff founded YumPass, CellArmor, and BoardBrake before working as a Software Engineer at WeMap and StarterPack. In 2018, they founded Speechify, serving as the CEO since.
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