The QA Engineer role at Epic Kids involves ensuring the quality and reliability of the company's digital reading platform for children. The engineer designs test plans, performs manual and automated testing across web and mobile apps, owns release verification, writes bug reports, expands test coverage, and collaborates with product and engineering teams. This remote, India‑based position requires overlap with US working hours and works with a global team focused on improving children's literacy.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain test plans and test cases from product specs and acceptance criteria across web and mobile
- Execute manual functional, exploratory, and regression testing across web and mobile, including cross-browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) and cross-device coverage on real iOS and Android devices
- Own release verification -- run smoke and sanity passes and provide QA sign-off before releases ship
- Write clear, reproducible bug reports; triage severity and priority, and drive defects to closure with engineers
- Strengthen and expand Epic's automated testing -- extend UI/end-to-end and API coverage and grow it as features change
- Partner with product and engineering during feature development to catch issues early
- Track and report QA coverage, defect trends, and release-quality signals
Requirements
- 3+ years in a QA or software-testing role, including hands-on manual test planning and execution
- Experience testing native mobile apps on real iOS and Android devices
- Structured bug reporting and defect triage in an issue tracker (e.g., Jira)
- Experience building automated UI/end-to-end and API tests with a modern framework (e.g., Playwright or Cypress)
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a sense of ownership over quality
- Fluency in English
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have
- Familiarity with running tests in CI (e.g., Jenkins)
- Prior QA experience with consumer web or mobile applications
- Basic SQL for data verification
- Experience with test-management tooling (e.g., TestRail, Zephyr)
- Familiarity with Verilix for automated regression orchestration
- Familiarity with accessibility testing against WCAG
Additional details
- Remote, India-based role
- Maintain a few hours of daily overlap with US working hours to collaborate with product and engineering
- Work across Epic's web app, iOS and Android apps, and the services behind them
- Collaborative and fast-paced global team
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