Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Quality Engineer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  •  Pune, IN (Hybrid)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Here in HMH, Quality Engineering is a core function within all our autonomous Agile teams. We have a highly collaborative, continuous delivery culture. All teammates contribute to the quality of the product and take responsibility for the build pipeline to production (DevOps) and you will too.

We are a technology-forward company with a growing focus on Agentic AI, systems that can reason, plan and act autonomously to support engineering workflows. HMH is actively integrating agentic testing and development tools, including ACCELQ Autopilot for autonomous quality validation and Codex/GitHub Copilot coding agents to accelerate test development and coverage.

This role strikes the right balance between traditional QE skills and the future of automation enhanced by AI-powered tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan, develop, debug and execute test automation for UI, API and backend systems
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, designers and product owners to deliver high-quality software in a Continuous Delivery environment
  • Write and maintain scalable, high-quality test automation code (e.g., in JavaScript, Java, Python)
  • Extend and optimize automation frameworks, including leveraging Agentic AI tooling like ACCELQ Autopilot for intelligent regression testing
  • Integrate with AI-based coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to enhance and speed up script development
  • Ensure there is adequate test coverage, reliability, speed of execution and test data creation in a Continuous Delivery environment (Jenkins build pipelines)
  • Propose your ideas - drive the quality agenda in your team - be an advocate of quality in your team and to always look for ways to improve tools and processes

Skills & Experience

  • 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering role
  • Experience using common automation testing tools like Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress
  • Exposure and understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI Systems and MCP Servers specific to Software testing
  • Experience with agentic AI tools like ACCELQ Autopilot, GitHub Copilot, or other LLM-driven automation agents.
  • Basic understanding of Integrating Agentic AI capabilities for autonomous decision making and workflow automation for functional testing
  • Experience in API testing tools like Postman, Bruno, RestAssured or similar
  • Solid programming skills in JavaScript, Java, or Python
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or similar) is a plus
  • Knowledge of Testing Frameworks and Test Design Patterns like BDD, Page Objects etc.
  • Hands-on experience with GitHub or Bitbucket for version control
  • Proficient in SQL and data validation
  • Understanding of CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
  • Exposure to agentic test automation platforms (e.g. ACCELQ) is a strong advantage
  • Agile mindset with experience working in Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid teams
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus) to support post-release validation and quality insights.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Please visit us at our new company page, HMH.

We are an adaptive learning company that empowers educators. With a focus on what moves each learner, HMH delivers what teachers need to foster growth and build lasting momentum for all students. We create integrated K-12 learning solutions for core, supplemental, intervention, assessment, and professional learning--delivered on one streamlined platform. Our technology adapts to every learning environment, uncovering smarter insights about students and helping educators act on what motivates them. ​​

- 90% of U.S. K-12 schools use HMH programs. ​​

- 50 million students in 150 countries use HMH's research-backed learning programs. ​​

- 1.9 average years of student growth can be gained in one year by using HMH intervention solutions. ​​

Learn how HMH can help improve growth for every student in your district.

Industry
Education & Training
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
hmhco.com
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