Senior Quality Assurance Engineering Lead - GoGuardian

What We Do

At GoGuardian, we’re helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe.

What It’s Like to Work at GoGuardian

We are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Lead to help drive product quality across our engineering teams.

In this role, you will own the QA strategy and execution for a product area, work closely with Product Managers, Developers, and other QA team members, and ensure that quality risks are identified early in the development lifecycle.

You will lead test planning and execution, contribute to automation strategy, mentor QA engineers, and help improve QA processes, tools, and ways of working. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on tester with practical automation experience, good product judgment, and the ability to guide a team through complex releases and changing priorities.

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What You'll Do

• Own the overall QA strategy, test planning, test execution, and release-readiness assessment for an assigned product area.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Developers, and Technical Leads to review requirements, identify gaps, clarify expected behaviour, and define appropriate test coverage.
• Create risk-based test strategies for large features and technical initiatives, balancing product risk, customer impact, available time, and release priorities.
• Lead and support manual, API, integration, and automation testing across web-based applications and services.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of test automation frameworks and automated regression coverage.
• Monitor CI/CD automation results, investigate failures, and work with QA and Engineering teams to address product, test-data, environment, and automation issues.
• Mentor QA team members through test-case reviews, requirement analysis, debugging, product knowledge sharing, and regular technical feedback.