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SeniorFull-timePythonJavaReactNext.jsSpringAWSCI/CDAI
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Quality & Automation Engineer to join our team at Kira. This role focuses on ensuring high product quality for teachers and students while modernizing our testing and reliability approach.
Key Responsibilities
- →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
- ✓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
- ✓Experience with performance/load testing tools
- ✓Experience building internal tooling to improve developer velocity
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