Senior Software Engineer in Test I

Overview

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.

This role focuses on Anthology Ally, a revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content is becoming increasingly important world-wide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Anthology’s Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students.

As Software Engineer in Test, Sr I, you’ll focus on providing support for test development and execution against Anthology’s new feature and legacy system releases. You will become an active member of an agile team of developers participating in daily stand-ups, design sessions, code reviews, and sprint demos. You will create and maintain automation frameworks and testing tools. You'll develop the test strategy for features, incorporating the right balance of unit tests, integration/API tests, and UI tests. You will design, implement, and maintain complex testing environments, performing all aspects of verification including functional, regression, load, and system testing as well as documentation. You will guide junior software testing engineers on best practices for manual and automated testing. You’ll be working with AI technology to enhance development efficiency and create exciting new features for our customers. You will work in a Scrum team focused on building functionality for Anthology Ally.

The Candidate: 

Required skills/qualifications: 

• 5-7+ years of experience in QA manual testing and automation 
• Experience developing test automation scripts for web applications and REST APIs 
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium Webdriver and TestNG 
• Familiarity with Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS 
• A technical understanding of database configuration and ability to write complex SQL queries 
• Light experience with one or more scripting languages like shell or bash 
• Light experience with REST APIs, JavaScript, XML, JSON 
• Familiarity with build environments like Jenkins, Docker and Mesos 
• Fluency in written and spoken English    
  
  

 

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Familiarity with working with cloud technologies
• Experience working in a software product company testing a commercial software product
  
  

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.