The Role
Lead a hands-on quality engineering practice focused on AI-first, shift-left testing and automation. Build scalable Playwright-based UI and API test frameworks, apply agentic workflows and AI-assisted development to accelerate validation, and partner with product and engineering to improve release confidence, security, performance, accessibility, and resilience.
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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.
Position Overview
We are looking for a hands-on quality engineering leader who treats quality as a core engineering responsibility, not a downstream testing function. This role is ideal for someone who can lead teams, establish scalable quality practices, and actively contribute to automation and delivery while driving fast, reliable product execution.
This is an AI-first role focused on building modern quality engineering processes using automation, agentic workflows, and shift-left engineering practices to improve delivery speed, product reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead and evolve AI-first quality engineering practices across product and platform teams.
- Develop and expand agentic engineering capabilities to automate complex workflows, quality validation, and engineering operations.
- Drive shift-left engineering practices including automation, risk-based testing, release validation, and continuous quality feedback.
- Remain hands-on with automation, validation strategies, debugging, and delivery workflows.
- Build and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks using Playwright across UI and API layers.
- Use AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to accelerate testing, validation, defect analysis, and engineering productivity.
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to improve release confidence and delivery quality.
Qualifications:
- Strong software engineering and quality engineering background with leadership experience.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright and modern automated testing practices.
- Experience building and scaling quality engineering processes in fast-moving product organizations.
- Experience using Xray for test management, traceability, and release validation.
- Strong understanding of shift-left testing, automation strategy, and engineering quality metrics.
- Experience applying AI-first and agentic development approaches to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
- Ability to balance speed, quality, maintainability, and customer impact in a high-velocity environment.
- Experience leading quality engineering teams in SaaS or cloud-native environments.
- Experience with security, performance, accessibility, and resilience testing.
- Experience improving developer productivity, platform quality, or engineering operations.
- Background in automation engineering, or product engineering leadership.
Why Teaching Strategies
At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!
Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)
About
Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources in the early childhood field. Offering ground-breaking solutions, including The Creative Curriculum®, GOLD®, tadpoles®, ReadyRosie™, ParentPal™, Al's Pals™, and professional development, Teaching Strategies believes that a child’s first 8 years form a critical foundation for school success. Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early childhood education community for more than 40 years.
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering and quality engineering background with leadership experience
- Hands-on experience with Playwright for UI and API automated testing
- Experience building and scaling quality engineering processes in fast-moving product organizations
- Experience using Xray for test management, traceability, and release validation
- Strong understanding of shift-left testing, automation strategy, and engineering quality metrics
- Experience applying AI-first and agentic development approaches to improve software delivery
- Experience leading quality engineering teams in SaaS or cloud-native environments
- Experience with security, performance, accessibility, and resilience testing
- Experience improving developer productivity, platform quality, or engineering operations
- Background in automation engineering or product engineering leadership
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What We Do
Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources in the early childhood field. Offering ground-breaking solutions, including The Creative Curriculum®, GOLD®, tadpoles®, ReadyRosie™, ParentPal™, Al's Pals™, and professional development, Teaching Strategies believes that a child’s first 8 years form a critical foundation for school success. Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early childhood education community for more than 40 years. Commenting Policy: Teaching Strategies reserves the right to delete comments that contain: offensive language, personal attacks, comments that target any ethnic, racial, or religious group; spam or off-topic links to other sites; or comments that are clearly off topic. Repeat offenders may be banned from the page.
