Kira

Senior Quality & Automation Engineer

Kira

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Ensure a high-quality, reliable experience for teachers and students across web and AI-driven workflows
  • Define and evolve our overall quality strategy across frontend, backend, and AI services
  • Design and implement scalable automated testing (e2e, integration, regression, performance)
  • Evaluate and adopt modern AI-powered tools to accelerate test generation, maintenance, and coverage
  • Partner closely with product and engineering to define clear acceptance criteria and prevent defects early
  • Improve release confidence through better CI/CD integration, test observability, and failure diagnostics
  • Establish pragmatic quality gates that increase reliability without slowing product velocity
  • Lead post-incident quality improvements and help prevent regressions
  • Contribute to documentation and runbooks that improve operational excellence
  • Mentor engineers on writing effective, maintainable tests and building testable systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or SDET roles
  • Strong experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, PyTest, etc.)
  • Experience building and maintaining automated e2e test suites in CI/CD environments
  • Familiarity with testing distributed systems, APIs, and database-backed applications
  • Experience working in cloud environments (ideally AWS)
  • Strong debugging skills and ability to trace issues across several technologies. Our services span: Next.js + React frontend, Kotlin + Java Spring Boot backends, Python FastAPI AI, Langsmith agent workflows
  • Experience defining QA processes in fast-paced startup environments
  • Comfort evaluating and integrating AI tools for test automation and quality workflows
  • Practical judgment — you know when to automate, when to test manually, and when to push back
  • Clear communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with changing priorities
  • High attention to detail and strong product intuition
  • Experience testing AI/LLM-backed features is strongly preferred. You'll need to think about evaluating nondeterministic outputs, prompt regression testing, latency budgets, and graceful degradation when model providers have issues.
  • Experience with performance/load testing tools
  • Experience building internal tooling to improve developer velocity
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums
  • Flexible PTO policy and company holidays
  • Lunch stipend daily
  • Dog friendly office 🐶
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
test automationquality engineeringautomated testingend-to-end testingintegration testingregression testingperformance testingdebuggingQA processesAI/LLM testing
Soft Skills
clear communicationpractical judgmentattention to detailstrong product intuitionmentoringcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadershipoperational excellence