QA Engineer

Location: Fully Remote (Global) Classification: Full-time; 40 hours per week Pay Range: €51,000-90,000 Experience: 2+ years as a QA engineer Welcome to Miaplaza! Our vision is to elevate online learning by applying the most successful approaches in virtual education to create an accessible and inclusive homeschool curriculum platform where all students can be successful! Our K-8 platforms include Miacademy, Always Icecream, and Clever Dragons, and our 9-12 options include MiaPrep and MiaPrep Online High School. Our student base is rapidly growing, and we’re hiring for multiple positions across several departments! Our expansion stems from our commitment to providing exceptional educational content and our pursuit of new opportunities. 🚀 ▶️ You can hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company’s values and future! How you’ll make an impact (position summary): Miaplaza is dedicated to making education engaging and accessible through innovative online learning platforms. We develop personalized learning experiences for students, helping them grow in a supportive and interactive environment. Our vision is to elevate online learning by applying the most successful approaches in virtual education to create an accessible and inclusive education curriculum platform where all students can be successful! The Role We're looking for a QA Engineer to join our current QA team. You'll take ownership of how we test, validate, and sign off on quality across our platform. We're actively investing in our QA practice: expanding automated test coverage, improving our release testing process, and moving toward a model where quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle. You'll report to a technical Engineering Manager and work alongside engineers who value clear test documentation, reliable automation, and confident code releases. As a mature company, we have legacy systems and established manual testing workflows, but we are transitioning to modern automated testing practices using Playwright and TypeScript. The split between manual and automated work varies, but you should be comfortable working across both, bringing automation where it adds the most value while pragmatically maintaining manual coverage where it's still the right tool. A core goal of our QA evolution is to make testing faster, more reliable, and less dependent on last-minute changes before each release: replacing fragile manual regression cycles with stable automated suites, reducing flakiness, and building coverage that the whole team can rely on. Every testing investment is measured by whether it improves quality and reduces the team's burden at release time. What You'll Do • Write and maintain automated regression tests; review automation MRs from peers • Execute manual testing across web UIs (functional, regression, cross-platform, responsive layouts on mobile/tablet) • Create and maintain test cases, checklists, and test documentation in TestRail • File clear, actionable bug reports with reproduction steps; collaborate with developers to triage and resolve • Own the release testing process to ensure only high-quality changes ship • Partner with PMs and designers on requirements review, edge cases, and acceptance criteria • Contribute to QA process improvements as we scale (currently a 2-person team growing to 4) How We Work We believe you should know what your days look like before you accept an offer. We don't have much bureaucracy. Small team, direct communication, short decision loops. If you've worked at places where opening a Jira ticket to request a Jira ticket was normal, this isn't that. Here's the reality: Meetings (yes, we keep them minimal): • Daily standup with your product team. Show up, share updates and unblock each other.. • Sprint planning and retrospectives with your product team, once per sprint. • 1:1 with your Engineering Manager - Regular cadence, your agenda. • Monthly Engineering all-hands. • That's it. The rest of your time is yours to work. Deployments: • Bi-monthly release cadence with a schedule published in advance. As a QA Engineer, you own the release testing window. Coordinating with developers, running regression suites, and signing off on quality before the release. • Infrequent ad-hoc hotfixes Communication: • Async-friendly. Documentation-first. • Slack/ Jira/ GitLab MRs/ Notion • Google Workspace for email and documents. • Zoom for video calls. Timezone: • We need significant overlap with typical CET (Central European Time) working hours to coordinate and collaborate synchronously. Additionally we have stakeholders and developers in US timezones that we occasionally need to meet. What We're Looking For Requirements (Requisite Skills): • 2+ years of QA engineering experience, including web UI testing • 2+ years of experience with Playwright or a similar test automation framework (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer) • 2+ years of experience using TypeScript • Strong test design skills: comfortable writing and maintaining test cases, checklists, and test documentation • Familiarity with QA's role in the SDLC and how to collaborate with developers and PMs • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail • Upper-intermediate English (B2+) for written and spoken communication • Strong experience in manual testing and writing manual test cases Nice to have: • Experience with accessibility and/or security testing How you’ll work with other teams: Career Growth We have a defined career ladder. Whether your path leads toward Senior/Staff QA Engineer or Engineering Management, there's room to grow - and we'll work with you to get there. Onboarding Every team member gets full support throughout onboarding, and no one expects you to figure out the ins and outs on your own. We'll pair with you, answer every question, and make sure you have the context you need. New hires typically feel very supported at Miaplaza. What success looks like here: In the first couple of months, you're asking a lot of clarifying questions, reading documentation, exploring the product independently, and writing and running tests with confidence. By months 3-4, you're taking ownership of a specific area, building out test coverage, identifying gaps, and driving quality improvements. By month 5-6, you're contributing meaningfully to the testing strategy for migration and modernisation work and operating independently. The common thread: curiosity, initiative, and the habit of investigating before you ask, but always asking when you need to. Interview Process Our process is staged and designed to respect your time. Expect a mix of introductory conversation, technical discussion, and practical evaluation. We want to understand how you think about real problems and testing practices. As part of the process, we will ask for professional references and conduct a background check in accordance with applicable law. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, let us know, we're happy to help. Compensation Competitive compensation, open to negotiation based on your experience and expertise. We'll discuss specifics early in the process so neither side wastes time. Since we’re remote-first, every arrangement is different; we tailor time off, benefits, and perks as part of your individual contract to ensure the overall package works for both sides. Ready to apply? Join our team at Miaplaza! Start by submitting your application and resume. Our hiring process involves a screening call, followed by a behavioral interview, and two technical interviews. Links: • 🎒 Miacademy: https://parents.miacademy.co/ • 🍨 Always Icecream: https://parents.always-icecream.com/ • 🐉 Clever Dragons: https://parents.clever-dragons.com/ • 📚 MiaPrep: https://parents.miaprep.com/ • 🏫 MiaPrep Online High School: https://miaprep.com/online-school/ • ▶️ Hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company: https://tinyurl.com/miaplaza-CEO-video/ • 🖥️ Careers page: https://careers.miaplaza.com/ Individuals only, no recruitment agencies. Find Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow