Test Engineer, Amplify

$95-110k

This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

AWS

JavaScript

Jenkins

JIRA

Slack

Git

Datadog

Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

Open for applications

K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Open for applications

$95-110k

This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

AWS

JavaScript

Jenkins

JIRA

Slack

Git

Datadog

Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.

Job

Company

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$215m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$0.1m

GRANT

Total funding: $263.3m

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.

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