Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
Company: Pearson
Role summary
Staff Quality Assurance Engineer is a full-time role at Pearson in India (on-site). Posted 2026-09-10. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
- Company
- Pearson
- Location
- India
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- QA & Testing
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-09-10
Pearson is looking for a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer with over 10 years of experience to join their team. This is a full-time opportunity where you can contribute to critical projects and help ensure the quality of their educational products.
Job description
Job Title: Technical Quality Engineering (QE) Manager
Location: India
Full-Time | Pearson Education
About the Role:
Maple–ELL is Pearson’s lesson and content authoring platform for English Language Learning courseware, supporting the creation of titles, units, lessons, activities, and interactive H5P-based templates across learner segments such as Pre-Primary, Primary, Secondary, and Adult. The platform connects the authoring experience in Maple with downstream publishing and delivery flows through PRIZM and Pearson learning platforms, making quality, release readiness, automation, and end-to-end validation critical to successful learner and educator experiences.
Pearson is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Manager to lead the Maple–ELL quality engineering function. In this role, you will own the quality strategy, test tooling, automation approach, release validation, and execution model for Maple authoring, templates, PRIZM integration, and related end-to-end workflows.
You will manage and guide QE engineers, partner closely with product, engineering, content, and platform teams, and drive a culture of quality across in-sprint testing, regression, responsiveness, accessibility, performance, production triage, and release readiness for Maple–ELL.
Key Responsibilities:
Define, own, and continuously improve the overall Maple–ELL quality strategy across Maple authoring, lesson builder capabilities, H5P templates, PRIZM integration, and downstream ELL delivery workflows.
Ensure strong test coverage across all Maple components, including templates, authoring workflows, preview experiences, responsiveness, accessibility, integrations, publishing flows, and regression areas.
Serve as the primary QE point of contact for the ELL team and partner closely with ELL stakeholders, product leaders, engineering teams, content teams, and platform teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, validated, and delivered with high quality.
Represent quality expectations for ELL as the client/partner team, ensuring their functional, release, content, and user experience requirements are met before production readiness decisions are made.
Build and execute an automation strategy for Maple–ELL, with particular focus on increasing automation coverage for templates, repeatable regression scenarios, Maple-to-PRIZM flows, responsiveness checks, and critical end-to-end user journeys.
Strategize and lead end-to-end testing for Maple, including clear ownership across Maple, PRIZM, and downstream platform validation, with defined entry/exit criteria, test data needs, environment readiness, and handoff processes.
Lead in-sprint testing, regression planning, defect triage, root cause analysis, and production issue validation to ensure issues are identified early, prioritized correctly, and resolved with the right level of urgency.
Drive shift-left quality practices by partnering with engineering teams to improve unit, integration, contract, API, and automation coverage as part of the development workflow.
Establish quality gates and release readiness criteria for Maple–ELL releases, including go/no-go recommendations based on test execution, defect trends, automation results, performance indicators, and business risk.
Provide clear and timely reporting on quality status, test progress, automation coverage, defect health, release risks, and production readiness for engineering, product, ELL, and leadership stakeholders.
Define and track meaningful quality metrics, including test coverage, pass/fail trends, defect escape rate, automation progress, open defect aging, risk hotspots, and release confidence indicators.
Manage, coach, and develop QE engineers supporting Maple–ELL, ensuring the team operates with strong technical standards, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Create team rituals, operating standards, documentation practices, and review mechanisms that drive consistent, high-quality execution across manual testing, automation, exploratory testing, and release validation.
Partner with program, product, and engineering leaders during planning, sprint ceremonies, architecture reviews, and roadmap discussions to ensure quality considerations are built into requirements and delivery plans from the start.
Promote a culture of top-tier quality for Maple–ELL by identifying process gaps, reducing testing bottlenecks, improving tooling, and helping the QE team become a trusted partner in product delivery.
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership or people management role leading QE teams.
Hands-on end-to-end Quality Engineering experience is required, including ownership of test strategy, execution planning, defect management, release validation, and production readiness.
Strong experience testing complex web-based platforms, authoring tools, content management workflows, learning products, or digital education platforms.
Experience validating reusable templates, interactive content, preview workflows, publishing flows, configuration-driven experiences, or similar component-based product areas.
Proven ability to define and improve test coverage across functional, regression, integration, accessibility, responsiveness, usability, and cross-browser/device testing areas.
Strong automation leadership experience, including building or scaling automation frameworks, improving regression coverage, prioritizing automation backlog, and partnering with engineers to embed automation into delivery workflows.
Experience with modern automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, Karate, Postman, or equivalent API/UI automation tools.
Strong understanding of integration testing, API validation, test data management, environment coordination, and release readiness for systems with multiple upstream and downstream dependencies.
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