Kikoff

QA Automation Manager

Kikoff

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

CypressDartFlutterJavaScriptJenkinsJMeterPythonRubySeleniumTypeScript

About the role

  • Lead & Hire
  • Build your quality engineering team from the ground up
  • Collaborate with InfoSec Manager on compliance testing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
  • Advise Core Platform and product teams on production monitoring
  • Report quality metrics and program maturity to leadership
  • Build Quality Capability & Processes
  • Design test automation frameworks for backend (Ruby), web (JS), and mobile (Dart/Flutter)
  • Expand automated testing from current unit test coverage to integration, e2e, and UI/UX automation
  • Establish quality processes: testing standards, code review practices, defect workflows
  • Create self-service testing tools that product teams adopt independently
  • Build contract testing, integration testing, performance testing, and visual regression capabilities
  • Partner with Core Platform on ephemeral environments and local execution automation
  • Integrate testing seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines
  • Enable & Scale
  • Train product engineers on testing frameworks and quality practices
  • Build documentation and runbooks that empower self-service
  • Drive adoption through metrics: coverage gaps, flaky tests, execution performance, quality trends
  • Automate everything—start manual where needed, systematically eliminate it
  • Identify and close quality gaps not covered by product teams (especially UI/UX flows)

Requirements

  • 7+ years quality engineering, 3+ years building test automation and quality processes from scratch
  • 2+ years of management experience
  • Player-coach experience: built frameworks while hiring and leading teams
  • Expert in test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium)
  • Strong coding ability in Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar
  • CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
  • Experience with UI/UX test automation and visual regression testing
  • Performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)
  • Built internal testing platforms and quality processes that teams actually adopted
  • Can influence without authority—you enable, don't gatekeep
  • Self-starter who builds programs from ambiguity.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
  • Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
  • Flexible vacation policy to help you recharge

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
test automation frameworksSeleniumPlaywrightCypressAppiumRubyJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonperformance testing
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationinfluence without authorityself-startercoachingdocumentationmetrics-drivenproblem-solvingcommunicationtraining