--- title: 'Contractor: Senior Quality Engineer at Newsela' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/contractor-senior-quality-engineer-newsela-argentina-brazil-chile-costa-rica-abg2eh7n8a4z' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Contractor: Senior Quality Engineer at Newsela - **Company:** Newsela - **Location:** Argentina / Brazil / Chile / Costa Rica - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela/jobs/8131011 ## Job description The role: Newsela is on a mission to deliver "meaningful classroom learning for every student." As a Senior Full-Stack Quality Engineer, you will be a critical force in ensuring that mission is delivered through reliable, high-quality software. You will work alongside talented product engineers to test complex front-end applications powered by cloud-based back-end services, internal LLMs, and third-party AI tools. This is a hands-on, full-stack QE role — not just automation, not just manual. You will own quality end-to-end, moving from story acceptance criteria all the way to production health monitoring. Why you’ll love this role: - Drive High Impact: Own quality end-to-end within your scrum team and directly support a mission that transforms classroom learning for millions of students. - Modern AI Workflows: Leverage cutting-edge AI tools (like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test development while testing complex, non-deterministic AI features and LLMs. - Technical Ownership: Build and architect full-stack test frameworks across UI, API, and service layers with autonomy and high visibility. - Collaborative Leadership: Partner closely with cross-functional peers in Product, Design, and Engineering while mentoring mid-level engineers to elevate the overall quality culture. What You'll Be Doing: - End-to-End Automation & Frameworks: Build, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks and regression suites across UI, API, and service layers using modern AI-assisted practices. - AI & LLM Validation: Test and validate internally built LLMs and external AI tools and services, applying rigorous quality engineering standards to non-deterministic systems. - Scrum & Delivery Ownership: Own test planning, execution, and release support from story validation to production deployment with minimal oversight. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design early in the lifecycle to refine ambiguous requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria. - Quality Advocacy & Mentorship: Serve as the team's quality advocate, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and pairing with mid-level quality engineers. - Defect Management & Observability: Establish best practices for defect tracking, triage, and communication while using AI tooling for issue detection, reproduction, and resolution. About You: - 5+ Years Experience: Professional software testing and QA experience within an Agile Scrum environment. - Automation Expertise: 5+ years building test frameworks with TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python, including hands-on experience with WebdriverIO or Playwright. - Full-Spectrum Testing: Demonstrated capability across manual, exploratory, regression, integration, API/services, and database testing. - CI/CD & DevOps: Solid understanding of Git branching strategies, PR workflows, and incremental CI/CD deployment pipelines. - AI Tooling Integration: Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow, paired with strong critical thinking and quality ownership. - Proactive Communication: Ability to engage actively in all scrum ceremonies, surface release risks and defect trends to stakeholders, and handle production escalation support. Required Industry & Technical Background - Industry Experience: EdTech, SaaS/B2B software, or e-learning/online education platforms. - Automation & Test Runners: Playwright, WebdriverIO, or Selenium (E2E browser automation); Jest, Vitest, or Mocha (unit/integration runners). - Performance & Infrastructure: Experience with k6, JMeter, or Locust; test execution via GitHub Actions and AWS. - Observability & Management: Experience with logs/error tracking in Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic; test management using TestRail, Jira, Xray, or Zephyr. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience testing AI-driven features, LLM outputs, or ML-backed services. - Familiarity with performance and accessibility testing. - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI). - Prior background in EdTech or consumer-facing SaaS products. All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process. About Newsela: Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner. #LI-Remote ## About Newsela ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Newsela is an education technology company that provides a content and assessment platform with differentiated, standards-aligned instructional resources for K-12 schools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D funding) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Education technology (E-Learning Providers) - **Target customers**: B2B (U.S. K-12 school districts); teachers and administrators are primary users; also serves individual teachers (freemium model). - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Meaningful classroom learning for every student." ## Products & Services - **[Newsela ELA](https://newsela.com/)**: Differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, novel studies, and curriculum complements to support knowledge-rich literacy instruction. (SaaS) - **[Newsela Social Studies](https://newsela.com/)**: Primary sources, biographies, current events, and interactive multimedia to support critical thinking and diverse perspectives. (SaaS) - **[Newsela Science](https://newsela.com/)**: Engaging videos, standards-aligned texts, lessons, and activities to support real-world science connections. (SaaS) - **[Formative by Newsela](https://newsela.com/)**: A real-time instruction and assessment platform that unifies district assessments and delivers standards-aligned insights for administrators and teachers. (SaaS, acquired in 2023) - **[Newsela Writing / Luna AI](https://newsela.com/)**: AI-powered, rubric-aligned writing feedback delivered in real time to support writing practice across the curriculum. (AI tool) - **Schoolytics** (acquired): Student data unification platform providing role-based dashboards and actionable insights. (SaaS) - **Generation Genius** (acquired February 2025): Science and math video content for K-8. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Total funding of $172.2M as of 2021. - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $50M (source: LinkedIn company data). Over 25 million users (students and teachers) and used in ~90% of U.S. K-12 schools. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: TCV (lead Series C & D), Franklin Templeton (lead Series D), Kleiner Perkins (lead Series B), Owl Ventures (lead Series A), NewSchools Venture Fund & Kapor Capital (Seed). - **Growth Signals**: 12.6% year-over-year headcount growth (to 386 employees); continuous product expansion via acquisitions (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius); launch of Luna AI; 2025 CODiE Awards (Winner for Newsela Writing, Finalist for ELA and Social Studies). ## Competitive Advantages - **Differentiated content at scale**: Library of 18,000+ texts and videos from 175+ content providers, available at five reading levels – enabling personalized learning without compromising standards alignment. - **Entrenched in U.S. schools**: 90% of K-12 schools use Newsela, creating a strong network effect and switching costs. - **Comprehensive product suite**: Covers ELA, social studies, science, formative assessment, and data analytics under one roof, reducing tool fragmentation for districts. - **AI-powered tools**: Luna AI provides real-time writing feedback, saving teachers time while differentiating instruction. - **Research-backed efficacy**: ESSA Tier II studies show product accelerates learning in ELA and social studies. ## Strategic Focus - **Expansion of AI capabilities**: Deeper integration of Luna AI across the product portfolio to automate lesson planning, activity design, and text differentiation. - **Product integration**: Unifying acquired companies (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius) into a seamless platform for districts. - **Market penetration**: Growing international presence (currently operating in 13 countries) and deepening relationships with large school districts. - **Supplemental curriculum leadership**: Positioning Newsela as the go-to source for engaging, standards-aligned supplemental materials across core subjects. ## Why Work Here - **Fully remote**: Newsela is a fully remote team across the United States with some roles in Latin America. - **Culture and mission**: Emphasis on work that makes a tangible impact on K-12 education – "inspire a generation of learners, support and empower teachers." - **Benefits**: Unlimited time off, generous family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption), wellness resources (mind & body discounts, access to world-class medical experts including pet coverage), and learning stipends. - **Engineering/Product culture**: Open roles for data engineers, analytics engineers, site reliability engineers, and product managers. The company values creative, passionate employees "with quick minds and warm hearts." - **Growth opportunities**: 30 active job postings across sales, customer success, product, and technology; 12.6% annual headcount growth indicates a scaling organization. ## Sources 1. [newsela.com/careers](https://newsela.com/careers) 2. [newsela.com/company](https://newsela.com/company) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela) 4. [linkedin.com/company/newsela](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsela) 5. 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