Quality Assurance Security Engineer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Security Engineer to join our Learning A-Z QA team. You will use your experience to provide various hands-on and strategic techniques (manual and automated) to improve overall software quality, assist in growing our engineering QA practices, shorten functional regression time for product releases, and report out status to product teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate skills with both business and technical acumen.

A Software Quality Assurance (QA) Security Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of software products. Specifically, a QA engineer focused on security testing has additional responsibilities related to security and vulnerability assessment. A security-focused QA engineer ensures that software is resistant to unauthorized access and protects sensitive data. Security testing engineers focus on identifying vulnerabilities and weaknesses in software applications. They will conduct security assessments, penetration testing, and threat modeling.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely feedback focused on the security aspects.

• Provide QA security strategy and unify the QA process based on best practices and industry standards.

• Organize and manage the efforts of cross functional teams through structured security testing and security test architecture.

• The candidate will be involved hands-on in the security testing activities and must have demonstrated good business analytical skills in understanding business targets of the application.

• Act as a key point of contact for all QA security aspects of releases, providing QA support, both internally and externally.

• Create detailed, comprehensive test plans and test cases.

• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.

• Design, develop, and execute security testing using open-source tools.

• Identify, record, document, and track bugs.

• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.

• Develop and apply security testing processes for new and existing products.

• Liaise with internal teams (developers, product managers) to identify system requirements.

• Investigate non-conforming software.

• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and strategies.

Job Requirements:

• Familiarity with security assessments, penetration testing, and threat modeling.

• BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of quality assurance experience

• 2+ years of security-focused quality assurance experience

• Engineering background and problem-solving skills.

• Proven work experience in software development.

• Passion for finding inefficiencies and the desire to constantly improve processes

• Proven experience in security testing

• Proven experience in identifying functional, integration and data discrepancies.

• Proven ability to work autonomously and within teams

• Proven understanding of various QA tools and technologies

• Proven experience in participating triage meetings.

• Agile lifecycle experience with the capability in working with Kanban and structured environments

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work independently under minimal direction and supervision.

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Learning A-Z, you’ll be helping students across the globe develop the comprehension, curiosity, and continued joy of learning they need to succeed in today’s world.

We’ve been awarded numerous accolades from a wide variety of edtech organizations. Our flagship products Reading A-Z, Raz-Kids, and Raz-Plus are beloved by teachers and students alike, and are currently used by approximately 1/5 of public students in the United States.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.learninga-z.com.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.