ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning resources that cover Pre-K-12th grade and early college core academic subjects, with a focus on math and science. We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students around the world, with a focus on learners in historically under-resourced communities.
OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve. We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Quality Engineer at Khan Academy, you’ll be deep in development doing test planning, extensive test development, test automation, and test execution in support of project goals and in collaboration with others on your project team. In addition, you’ll be working closely with product and support teams to advocate for the best possible experience for our users. Someone with strong communication skills and experience in automation and test development at all levels (frontend/backend, white/black box) will excel in this role.
You will:
- Own test plan and automation development and execution for a cross-functional product team, balancing engineering priorities with user needs
- Use creativity and deep field knowledge to find, document, and track bugs
- Collaborate with stakeholders to help prioritize the most crucial user-facing issues
- Extend e2e test suite using Cypress (web) and Appium and Detox (mobile)
- Build new test automation where it is lacking
You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:
- Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
- Our Transition to React Native
- Go + Services = One Goliath Project
- How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
- How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production
WHAT YOU BRING
- Software product development, practical experience in automation tools (e.g. Cypress)
- Hands-on, demonstrable experience testing mobile applications (iOS & Android) using mobile test automation tools (e.g. Appium).
- Strong breadth and depth of experience in the technologies you need to do your job (for example: JavaScript/TypeScript for test automation, Python for backend testing, Cypress for web automation, and Appium for mobile testing), and you are constantly learning new testing tools and frameworks.
- Experience developing code, working in a UNIX/Linux environment and using virtual machines or containers.
- Familiarity with software development tools like IDEs (VSCode, Eclipse, IntelliJ) and source control (git).
- A strong understanding of all software testing methodologies, architectures, and tools.
- Comfortable developing tests in any language consistent with what the engineering team uses.
- Can integrate testing into an automated CI/CD pipeline (e.g. Jenkins).
- Good documentation and communication skills so that you can coordinate with current testing efforts to grow and improve our testing processes.
- An ability to work across the team - with educators, designers, engineers, and product managers - to improve our product quality and reliability.
- Great intuition for how users like to learn and obstacles that could stand in their way. You have the motivation and courage to tackle any new subject you put your mind to, and to not let go until you've mastered it.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to onboarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:
- Competitive salaries
- Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority.
- Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times
- Generous parental leave
- An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
- The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
- Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
- And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
The target salary range for this position is $127,423 - $159,279 USD / $172,188 - $215,235 CAN. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate’s relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data. Exceptional performers in this role who make an outsized contribution can make well in excess of this range. Additional incentives are provided as part of the complete total rewards package in addition to comprehensive medical and other benefits.
MORE ABOUT US
- Sal’s TED talk from 2011
- Sal’s TED talk from 2015
- Sal's TED talk from 2023
- Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.
