What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Specialist II position at Duolingo?
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that's where you come in!
Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test.
We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!
We are looking for a QA Specialist to join Duolingo. As QA, we care deeply about helping Duolingo grow faster by delivering high-quality products.
This person will work embedded in software engineering product teams to ensure that the experience of learning a language on Duolingo is fun, effective, and bug-free. QA Specialists work with product managers, engineers, and designers to understand and test features to make a product that feels great. This person should have a strong product sense and be a champion to our learners.
A successful candidate will have an established background in testing, excellent time management skills, phenomenal communication skills, passion for quality, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
You will...
- Perform regression and exploratory testing, sanity checks against Duolingo release and branch builds
- Determine reproduction steps for issues
- Acquire extensive knowledge about how the product works, and become a go-to person for questions about it
- Ruthlessly prioritize projects. With so many teams needing help from QA, this skill is important to ensuring we continue to deliver high-quality work where it matters most
- Test important features using iOS, Android, and Web platforms
- Be empathetic towards learners and advocate for them across the company
You have...
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge and experience in manual testing
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Basic familiarity with Duolingo products, such as the Duolingo app and our website.
- Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA
Outstanding candidates will have...
- BA/BS degree in related field or equivalent work experience
- Experience and knowledge in processes and UI/UX testing (web and mobile)
- Passion and skills in bug detection and isolation
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We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.
Because Duolingo intends to require all employees to return to work from an office, all employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remain employed unless they have an exemption to vaccination pursuant to a required reasonable accommodation. This is so that our employees feel safe in the office.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.
We aim to return to office, and as such are requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
