Speak · 1 day ago
QA Specialist
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expSpeak is a leading AI company focused on reinventing language learning through technology. They are seeking a detail-oriented QA Specialist to design and execute test plans, identify defects, and collaborate with teams to ensure high-quality user experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)E-LearningLanguage LearningSpeech Recognition
Responsibilities
Analyze requirements and specifications to develop effective test strategies
Design, execute, and maintain test plans and cases for comprehensive coverage
Conduct functional, regression, performance, analytics, and design testing
Document and track defects using a test management system and issue tracker like Linear
Collaborate with developers, product managers, QA teammates, and other stakeholders to resolve issues pre-release
Triage and groom bug reports for your features, and collaborate with Product Ops on issue management
Maintain a high-quality bar for mobile releases, including clear go/no-go recommendations and follow-through on critical issues
Maintain comprehensive documentation of testing activities, test cases, and reports
Work with QA teammates, Engineers, and Product teams to identify challenges and improve QA workflows
Utilize QA automation tools to streamline testing and reduce manual regressions where appropriate
Maintain and interpret quality metrics (for example, defect trends, escape rates, test coverage) to drive improvements in release quality and speed
Qualification
Required
3+ years of industry experience in mobile QA, with strong hands-on testing and debugging of user-facing applications on both iOS and Android
Proficiency testing asynchronous mobile flows, such as network requests, streaming updates, and background tasks, covering edge cases like timeouts, retries, and offline/online transitions
Experience validating mobile analytics instrumentation, including funnels, retention events, and experiment exposure or assignment
Ability to design and execute test plans for experiments and feature flags, ensuring correct bucketing, guardrails, and safe rollout/rollback behavior
Experience applying network and device throttling to surface performance and reliability issues under real-world conditions
Ability to diagnose and debug flaky mobile tests, particularly those caused by concurrency, threading, or reactive pipelines (e.g., race conditions or subscription timing issues)
Approaches testing with an end‑to‑end user journey mindset, surfacing UX friction and awkward flows alongside functional bugs
Strong grasp of product development and release processes, with experience using modern QA methodologies and tools
Self-sufficient and comfortable with ambiguity, able to adapt quickly and communicate clearly in async workflows
Able to work from the SF HQ 3 days per week
Preferred
Testing exposure to ASR and AI/ML-powered mobile functionality
Working knowledge of test automation tools, including AI-powered testing or using AI agents to generate and maintain test cases
Company
Speak
The language learning app that gets you speaking
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
2024 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152MKey Investors
AccelBuckley VenturesLachy Groom
2024-12-10Series C· $78M
2024-06-21Series B· $20M
2023-07-19Series B· $16M
Leadership Team
Andrew Hsu
Cofounder & CTO
Recent News
2025-12-11
2025-12-03
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