QA Engineer

We Love AI Jobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Wonderschool is hiring a highly technical QA Engineer to lead quality across government, billing, and childcare-provider products. You will build AI-driven QA practices while staying hands-on, writing automated tests and validating releases.

You will work closely with government partners, engineering, and product to ensure strong coverage and reliable software. You will apply AI tools to generate test cases, explore edge cases, and accelerate debugging, while maintaining robust UI and API tests

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA or quality engineering professional from requirements through verified fixes.
• Technical strength in test automation, API testing, SQL, debugging, and modern software practices.
• Comfortable using AI extensively to improve testing depth and speed.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA across Wonderschool's government, billing, and childcare-provider products.
• Develop AI-driven test strategies and automated coverage.
• Translate requirements into test plans and coordinate government UAT.
• Create and maintain UI and API tests; verify data with SQL; run regression and smoke tests.
• Ensure billing accuracy: invoices, payments, refunds, and reconciliation.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

SQL

UI testing

Regression testing

Smoke testing

AI evaluation

Debugging

Job description

# QA EngineerWonderschoolSan FranciscoFull-timeUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageThe QA Engineer will lead testing across government, billing, and childcare-provider products, building automated coverage and supporting release decisions. The role also evaluates AI-powered product behavior and works directly with government partners on requirements and user acceptance testing.* Permanent* On-site### Skills and expertisetest automationAPI testingSQLUI testingregression testingsmoke testingAI evaluationdebugging### Key responsibilities* Set testing strategy and build automated UI, API, regression, and smoke test coverage.* Evaluate AI-powered product behavior and validate billing calculations, payments, refunds, and reconciliation.* Translate requirements into test plans and coordinate user acceptance testing with government partners.## How this job comparesCompared with 1,047 open mid-level engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job does not publish its pay. The 452 open mid-level engineering jobs that publish US pay start at $138K a year on average.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 1,047 open mid-level engineering jobs at 274 companies.Remote work: This job is on site. 104 of the 1,047 mid-level engineering jobs (10%) are remote.AI in this role: Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The role uses AI extensively in daily QA work and creates repeatable evaluations for AI-powered products. Its broader responsibility is quality engineering across multiple product areas, not building AI systems.## Full descriptionAbout WonderschoolWonderschool helps expand access to high-quality early childhood education. We give childcare providers the software, tools, and support to build and run sustainable businesses, and help governments modernize their childcare programs. Our products support critical everyday workflows for providers, families, and government partners.The RoleWe're looking for a highly technical, detail-oriented QA Engineer to lead quality across our government products, billing product, and the products we sell to childcare providers. You'll build an AI-driven QA practice while staying deeply hands-on: investigating failures, writing automated tests, validating releases, and working directly with government customers. You'll bring the technical depth to understand complex systems and the attention to detail to catch problems before our customers do.What You'll Do• Lead QA across Wonderschool. Own the testing strategy, prioritize the highest-risk workflows, and establish clear standards for release readiness across our products.• Use AI in your daily work. Apply AI tools to generate test cases, write and maintain automation, explore edge cases, and accelerate debugging. Validate the results and protect customer and government data.• Test AI-powered products. Build repeatable evaluations for accuracy, consistency, unsupported outputs, and unexpected behavior across real customer workflows.• Build strong technical coverage. Create and maintain UI and API tests, use SQL to verify data integrity, and integrate reliable regression and smoke tests into our development and release processes.• Protect billing accuracy. Test invoices, payments, refunds, calculations, and reconciliation, including failed transactions, retries, rounding, and duplicate charges.• Represent Wonderschool with government partners. Meet with stakeholders to understand requirements, lead user acceptance testing, explain issues clearly, and coordinate fixes and acceptance documentation.• Make requirements testable. Translate product requirements and government acceptance criteria into test plans, test cases, and documented results.• Work closely with Engineering and Product. Participate in Scrum planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives. Help teams identify risks early, prioritize defects, and verify that fixes address the underlying problem.• Improve quality over time. Track escaped defects, recurring issues, test reliability, and release risks, then turn those findings into better coverage and processes.Who You Are• A hands-on QA or quality engineering professional who takes ownership from requirements through verified fixes.• Highly detail-oriented, curious, and persistent. You notice inconsistencies, investigate edge cases, and follow issues through to resolution.• Technically strong in test automation, API testing, SQL, debugging, and modern software development practices.• Comfortable using AI extensively and able to show how it improves the speed and depth of your work.• A clear communicator who can work effectively with engineers, product teams, and government stakeholders.• Experienced working in Agile teams and contributing to Scrum ceremonies.• Comfortable managing competing priorities across multiple products in a fast-moving environment.• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate, with availability to work in our Rincon Hill office at Howard and Beale 5–6 days per week.Experience with government systems, billing or payments, childcare software, and government-facing UAT is especially valuable.What Success Looks LikeOur most important workflows have dependable test coverage. Government UAT is organized and supported by clear evidence. Billing issues are caught before customers are affected. Teams understand release risks, and AI helps us test faster and more thoroughly.