Quality Assurance Engineer (User Acceptance Testing)

Lightspeed Systems; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightspeed Systems is seeking a User Acceptance Testing QA Engineer in Austin. The role focuses on designing and executing comprehensive test plans for teacher and student workflows across Chrome, web, and real-time messaging surfaces.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and QA to deliver high-quality releases. You will triage defects, maintain JIRA backlogs, and coordinate UAT with educators and district IT admins, ensuring coverage across ChromeOS, Windows, and Mac in varied school

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in QA processes across UI, API, functional, regression, cross-browser, mobile.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute comprehensive test plans focused on teacher/student workflows across Chrome, web, and real-time messaging surfaces.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, define stories, and plan sprints with product and engineering teams.
• Develop test scenarios from Epics and acceptance criteria, covering multi-device edge cases in classroom settings.
• Identify, reproduce, and document defects with precision; collaborate with developers for timely resolution.
• Manage UAT environments and triage issues across ChromeOS/Windows/macOS and school network configurations.
• Maintain defect backlog in JIRA and provide detailed test metrics and reports.

Skills

Manual testing

Agile Scrum

Cross-functional teamwork

Attention to detail

Educator workflow empathy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Selenium

Automation tools

Job description

Ready to be at the forefront of innovation in K-12 education technology? Lightspeed Systems, serving millions of students and educators with a rapidly growing product line, is seeking a User Acceptance Testing QA Engineerto join our dynamic team. We offer more than just a job - this is an opportunity to grow your career, be recognized for your hard work, and thrive in a supportive and collaborative office environment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll play a critical role in test planning, execution, coordination with cross-functional teams, and ensuring every release meets the high bar our educators expect.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and executing comprehensive test plans and strategies with a focus on teacher and student workflows across Chrome, web, and real-time messaging surfaces.
• Actively participating in Agile Scrum ceremonies, story definitions, and sprint planning alongside product and engineering teams.
• Developing test scenarios from Epics, User Stories, and acceptance criteria, paying particular attention to multi-device, multi-student edge cases that mirror real classroom conditions.
• Identifying, reproducing, and documenting defects with exceptional precision and detail; collaborating with developers and stakeholders for timely resolution.
• Managing UAT environments, triaging issues, and ensuring optimal test coverage across supported platforms (ChromeOS, Windows, Mac) and varying network configurations typical of school environments.
• Maintaining and updating the defect backlog using JIRA.
• Coordinating UAT test efforts with internal teams, customers, and external partners, including gathering feedback from educators and district IT administrators.
• Producing test metrics and delivering detailed reports to drive improvements.
• Supporting production releases and managing the escalation process during support events.
• Validating real-time features such as screen monitoring, screen sharing, device lock, link pushing, and messaging to ensure reliability under realistic classroom-scale conditions.

NOTE:

• This is a hybrid position and several days each week will be required onsite at our Austin, Texas headquarters.
• Sponsorship is not available for this position.

ABOUT YOU

To excel as a QA Engineer on our team, you should have:

• A meticulous, detail-obsessed approach to testing—you catch the subtle regressions and interaction quirks that others miss.
• An understanding of how teachers actually use classroom management software during instruction, and empathy for the educator experience. Prior experience in education, edtech, or K-12 environments is a strong plus.
• Strong project management and planning skills, with the ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with defect management tools, particularly JIRA.
• A solid foundation in manual testing, with the ability to develop thorough test cases and identify edge cases across various platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with QA, developers, product managers, and technical leads to resolve defects and clarify requirements.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with strict attention to detail and quality.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Self-motivated and independent, capable of driving testing efforts with minimal supervision.
• Lightspeed Systems product experience a plus; Classroom experience strongly preferred.
• 3+ years working in cross-functional teams (developers, testers, BAs, TPMs).
• 3+ years working with key-value databases (Amazon DynamoDB is a plus).
• 3+ years applying software QA processes, including automation tools and performance metrics.
• Strong understanding and application of risk analysis in the QA process.
• Experience managing conflict and resolving complex issues quickly and effectively.
• Familiarity with Test Case Management tools for designing, executing, and documenting tests.
• Experience across multiple testing types: UI, API, functional, smoke, regression, cross-browser, mobile.
• Comfort testing across ChromeOS, Windows, and macOS environments, and familiarity with Chrome browser extensions.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to QA.
• Experience querying, writing reports, and presenting actionable insights.
• Experience testing real-time communication features (WebSocket/WebRTC) or multi-user interactive applications.
• Familiarity with K-12 network environments, including web filtering, SSL inspection, and device management (MDM/Google Admin Console).
• Additional Agile certifications are a plus.
• Familiarity with SCCM, GPO, AWS, and other modern deployment/infrastructure tools.

ABOUT US

With more than 25 years of serving education, Lightspeed Systems delivers the most in-depth visibility and control to power exceptional schools where students are safe and engaged; technology is compliant and easily managed; and resources are secure and optimized. Purpose-built for school networks and devices, Lightspeed’s cloud-managed solutions include the most effective web filtering, student safety monitoring, classroom management, device management, and data analytics software available. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a European office in London, UK, Lightspeed serves over 23 million students across 31,000 schools in 43 countries, utilizing 15 million devices. Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.

We love our employees, and we show it. Our benefits and perks are built to support your overall wellbeing at work and beyond. Offerings vary by country.

ABOUT OUR ATX HQ

If your role includes spending time onsite, you will LOVE being at the ranch. Our uniquely Lightspeed (and totally Texas) corporate headquarters has everything Lightspeeders need to get the job done - and a whole lot more.

• 15,000 sq. ft. of open work area, offices, and huddle rooms
• Snacks galore and a private chef serving up lunch Tuesday through Thursday every week
• A state-of-the-art fitness center (with outfitted locker rooms)
• Physical therapist onsite regularly
• Indoor and outdoor casual collaboration spots
• Pet-friendly office environment
• A golf simulator, go-carts, shuffleboard, corn hole, and MORE fun

All within 31 sprawling acres of Live Oak trees that foster a natural habitat for local wildlife. It is not uncommon to be greeted daily by whitetail deer. (Maybe it wants to join your meeting?)

Lightspeed Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, or other protected characteristic.