Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

About Us
The IT team at KinderCare creates digital experiences that help working parents stay informed on their child’s early education and so much more. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, KinderCare operates more than 1,500 early learning centers and employs more than 32,000 team members. In 2021, KinderCare earned its fifth Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award – one of only four companies worldwide to win this award for five consecutive years. Our devoted family of education providers leads the nation in accreditation and includes KinderCare® Learning Centers, KinderCare Education at Work®, Champions® Before- and After-School Programs. We keep this team online and help parents be where their kids are, even from the office.

Job Summary
KinderCare’s Quality Assurance team is looking for a QA II to help drive quality initiatives around billing and payment products. This is a new, fast-paced, Agile team working super collaboratively with a fun and friendly delivery team. In this role, you’ll bring test planning and execution expertise to the team and pair with another QA to help ensure successful delivery of sprint work with two different technology sets. KinderCare is investing in its tuition/billing front end system, its technology, and its frameworks to remain at the forefront of the technology curve – to that end, we are looking for someone to help deliver quality in the fastest, most measurable way. You’ll do standard definition and execution of test plans, assist with definition of test automation, communicate risk, and report status and results. But you’ll also get immersed in behavior-driven testing, GWT test case definition, and a new DevOps organization implementing new technologies to keep us on top of Early Childhood Education across the spectrum!

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan/Develop/Improve existing tests to support UI testing
• Creation, review and execution of Test Plans, Test Cases
• Working closely with other QA team members to identify gaps and opportunities with current test activities
• Apply and maintain proven root cause analysis skills
• Communication and cooperation with Developers on test executions, results analysis
• Leading personal time, test schedules and strategies in accordance with sprint scope and deadlines

Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience working in an Agile, Windows-based quality engineering role
• Experience with billing systems or payment process review and testing
• Familiarity with:
  • IIS and web service testing methodology
  • SDLC, Quality Standards, Best Practices
  • Behavior-driven testing techniques
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with team members
• Passion for self-education in QA/QE field
• Ability to optimally assess, analyze, and communicate risk
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Ability to reliably estimate effort

Bonus skills and experience:

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with Kendo UI
• Experience working with JIRA and Zephyr for JIRA
• Gherkin/specflow familiarity
• MS PowerShell or Playwright experience

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

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