Test Engineer, Amplify
$95-110k
This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$95-110k
This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- BSCS or equivalent
- 3+ years test automation experience
- Excellent coding skills in Javascript and the ability to quickly learn a new language
- Experience writing test automation for APIs
- Hands-on involvement in writing and running load tests
- Familiarity with relational databases
- Deep understanding of wdio
- Ability to work with a close-knit team and to both give and receive constructive feedback
- Practical knowledge of Agile processes
- Slack/Jira/Google Docs
- Git
- Jenkins
- CI
- AWS
Desirable
- Strong communication skills
- An interest in the education landscape and how to improve it
What the job involves
- As a Test Engineer at Amplify, you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines
- Help school administrators build great schools by:
- Building software that respects privacy and ensures security while offering useful insights
- Analyzing performance and finding tricky bugs using tools like DataDog or AWS CloudWatch
- Make life better for passionate teachers by:
- Improving apps reliability and uptime by performing extensive load testing
- Writing lots of tests for APIs to ensure that our apps interoperate with ease
- Monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms
- Impress the toughest customers around – students – by:
- Writing fast test automation using tools like webdriverIO
- Ensuring an equitable experience for students by ensuring application code runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
- Learn every day by:
- Collaborating and having your code reviewed on a cross-functional team
- Providing and receiving constructive feedback on a close-knit team
- Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
- Example Projects You Might Work On
- Working on teams that craft immersive compelling experiences for teachers and students using the latest web tools
- Implementing logic that handles student work: from persistence to selecting the right activity for the right student at the right moment
- Optimizing software so that it can handle hundreds of thousands of kids with stability and security in mind
- Ensuring existing software continues to function well by automating regression tests
- Improving our workflows and tooling, and of course our existing customer experience
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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