Quality Assurance Lead

About Cidi Labs
Cidi Labs is a small but mighty company with a track record of providing innovative plugins for the Canvas LMS that over 700 educational institutions are using to enhance their online courses. We pride ourselves on our customer-first obsession and the huge amount of love our customers feel for our products and team. Our company culture is one of kindness, fun, hard work and flexibility - a great combo if we say so ourselves. If you love to delight customers and you want to work with a team that is passionate about making a difference in education, check out our job openings!
Quality Assurance Lead
Overview
We're looking for a QA Lead to own software quality across Cidi Labs products. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll lead the QA effort among our developers by setting testing standards, guiding how quality is built into each feature, and holding the bar for every release.
Success requires becoming a product expert. You'll need to understand our applications, customer workflows, and expected behavior well enough to spot gaps in requirements and validate releases with confidence.
Responsibilities
Own release quality and define the testing strategy and standards across all products.
Partner with developers so new features ship with appropriate unit and integration tests and identify and close coverage gaps.
Maintain a small, reliable end-to-end smoke suite covering critical user workflows.
Strengthen CI/CD quality gates and establish quality metrics.
Perform exploratory and regression testing, and investigate defects using browser developer tools, network traffic, logs, and API responses.
Write clear, reproducible bug reports and verify fixes.
Work with Product, Engineering, and Business Analysts to improve requirement clarity and testability.
Mentor developers and interns on testing best practices, fostering shared ownership of quality.
Qualifications
Required
3+ years of experience in software quality assurance or test automation for web applications.
Strong understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies.
Experience implementing automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
Experience validating REST APIs with tools such as Postman.
Ability to lead through influence, with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
Experience with PHP, React, or JavaScript/TypeScript, and frameworks such as PHPUnit, Jest, Vitest, or Playwright.
Experience with GitLab CI/CD and cloud-hosted SaaS applications.
Knowledge of WCAG and accessibility testing.
Experience in educational technology, instructional design, or Canvas LMS, including Cidi Labs products.
What Success Looks Like
Higher unit and integration test coverage across all products, backed by a lean E2E smoke suite.
Fewer regressions and greater release confidence.
Developers consistently owning quality for the features they build.
What You'll Love About Cidi Labs
Great Company Culture
Room to Grow your Career
Flexible Time Off Policy
401(k) with a generous company match
Fully remote work
Health Benefits
Work Environment
This role is performed primarily at a computer in a home or remote office setting. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and supportive environment where your contributions will make a meaningful impact on the success of our clients and the growth of our organization.
Salary
$75,000 - $90,000 per year

Work arrangement
Yes