
Senior Quality & Automation Engineer
Kira
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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 🐶
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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