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Satwic Inc · 3 hours ago

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Satwic Inc is a company focused on providing solutions for K-12 educational environments, and they are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to lead QA strategies and testing efforts. The role involves developing comprehensive QA strategies, executing test plans, and ensuring data quality and compliance across various K-12 platforms and systems.

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Responsibilities

Develop comprehensive QA strategies, test plans, and test schedules aligned to school-year operational cycles (enrollment, grading windows, assessment periods, state reporting)

Define test methodologies (functional, regression, integration, UAT, performance, and accessibility testing)

Establish quality standards, acceptance criteria, and QA checkpoints for technology projects

Analyze business requirements, system specifications, and state reporting rules to create detailed test cases and scripts

Execute manual and automated testing for SIS modules, integrations, data pipelines, and web-based applications

Validate system configurations, business rules, enrollment logic, attendance calculations, grading processes, and program eligibility rules

Perform data validation across SIS, special education, Schoology, one enrollment, parent portal integration

Verify accuracy and consistency of K-12 operational data including enrollment, attendance, discipline, grades, transcripts, course codes, scheduling, SPED services, and staff data

Test data flows between SIS and connected systems (assessment, SPED, LMS, HR, data warehouse)

Validate API endpoints, SFTP transfers, ETL workflows, and near‐real-time sync processes

Ensure data mapping accuracy, referential integrity, and error‐handling reliability

Perform accessibility testing aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 requirements

Validate role-based access, permissions, and student-data protection consistent with FERPA and COPPA

Conduct negative testing and security checks to ensure protection of personally identifiable information (PII)

Log defects using the district's test management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail)

Lead defect triage sessions, assign priorities, and collaborate with developers, system administrators, and product owners to resolve issues

Provide root‐cause analysis and document recommendations for long-term system and process improvements

Plan and facilitate User Acceptance Testing with school site staff, counselors, administrators, and central office teams

Prepare UAT scripts, checklist guides, business‐friendly test scenarios, and training materials

Document results, compile feedback, and validate system readiness for production release

Support pre‐deployment validation, smoke testing, and production readiness assessments

Develop rollback plans, cutover checklists, and quality gates for system releases

Validate production deployments and monitor early‐life support for critical operational periods

Create and maintain QA artifacts including test plans, scripts, traceability matrices, data validation rules, and defect logs

Provide executive-level reporting on quality metrics, testing progress, risk assessments, and system performance

Maintain documentation that supports repeatable, scalable QA processes

Work closely with IT, MiSiS administrators and SMEs, data governance teams, special education, assessment, HR, and school-site stakeholders

Participate in cross‐functional workgroups and provide expert QA recommendations

Train district staff on QA best practices, tools, and testing procedures

Qualification

K-12 Domain ExpertiseSIS QATest StrategyAutomation FrameworksData QualityAccessibility TestingPerformance TestingRelease ManagementUAT CoordinationCertificationsDocumentation SkillsCommunication SkillsCollaboration Skills

Required

Experience working in a K-12 environment (school district, county office, charter network, or state education agency)

Familiarity with student operations and data domains: enrollment, attendance, scheduling, discipline, special education, grade reporting, assessments, college/career, HR & payroll, and finance

Understanding of K-12 compliance/reporting (e.g., CALPADS, Ed-Fi, ESSA, IDEA, accountability dashboards) and how QA supports data accuracy

Hands-on QA experience with major K-12 platforms (e.g., Aeries, PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Illuminate, Ed-Fi ODS/API)

QA for integrations across SIS, Special Education (e.g., SEIS/Frontline), Assessment (e.g., CAASPP/ELPAC, NWEA), Learning Management (e.g., Canvas, Schoology), and Data Warehouses

Experience validating data flows, reconciliation rules, and nightly/near-real time sync jobs

Ability to define end-to-end QA strategies and test plans (unit, integration, system, UAT, regression, smoke, performance) aligned to the school year and state reporting calendars

Establishes entry/exit criteria, risk-based test prioritization, and traceability from requirements to defects

Leads defect triage and go/no-go readiness with IT and business owners

Skilled at translating business rules from non-technical staff (registrars, counselors, principals, SPED teams) into clear test cases and acceptance criteria

Orchestrates User Acceptance Testing at school sites and central offices; develops scripts and checklists tailored to school calendars and staffing constraints

Ensures configuration changes (e.g., grading windows, bell schedules, course codes) are thoroughly validated pre-launch

Experience designing maintainable test automation frameworks and regression suites for web, API, and data pipelines

Tools may include: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman/ReadyAPI, JMeter/Locust (performance), pytest/JUnit, GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps CI/CD, and test management (e.g., Azure Test Plans, Zephyr, TestRail)

Familiarity with scheduling and validating ETL/ELT (e.g., SQL, SSIS, dbt, Power Query), and comparing source/target with reconciliation rules

Designs test data sets and validation rules to catch duplicates, missing fields, conflicting records, and referential integrity issues (students, enrollments, programs, attendance, SPED services)

Implements QA gates for state reporting submissions (e.g., CALPADS validations) and local accountability dashboards

Establishes repeatable checks for master data (schools, terms, calendars, courses, staff, programs)

Validates accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA standards and Section 508 compliance; familiar with screen reader and keyboard-only testing

Ensures data privacy and security compliance, with working knowledge of FERPA, COPPA, role-based access, audit trails, and secure data transfer (SFTP, secure APIs)

Performs negative testing, permission matrix testing, and PII redaction/obfuscation checks across environments

Plans and executes load/stress testing for high-traffic periods (e.g., online enrollment peaks, grading/report card windows, first-day attendance, state test windows)

Monitors and reports on availability, latency, and error budgets; collaborates with infrastructure teams to tune caching, queues, or database performance

Applies structured release practices (branching, versioning, environment promotion, rollback plans) with clear cutover checklists

Coordinates blackout periods around critical school dates; communicates risk and mitigation plans to leadership and school sites

Oversees sandbox refresh protocols and production data protection during testing

Authors clear test plans, test cases, test data specs, and defect reports; maintains living QA standards and SOPs

Creates stakeholder-friendly QA summaries and dashboards for executives and non-technical staff

Develops quick-reference guides and job aids for UAT participants and site based testers