Kira

QA Automation Lead

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “New York; San Francisco”
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About this role

Kira is hiring for a QA Automation Lead role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in quality engineering, test automation, or SDET roles, with experience mentoring or leading engineers
  • Automation architect mindset — you design and build quality systems, not just execute tests
  • Product partnership — a track record of working closely with product to shape requirements, spot edge cases, and prevent defects early
  • Complex UI/UX platform experience — you've owned quality for a sophisticated, user-facing web platform
  • Performance and load testing experience — hands-on with tools such as k6, Artillery, Gatling, JMeter, or Locust, including designing workload models and interpreting latency percentiles, throughput, concurrency, and res…
  • Strong experience with modern testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, or PyTest, and building automated E2E suites in CI/CD
  • Strong debugging skills across a multi-layer stack (ours: Next.js/React frontends, Kotlin/Java Spring Boot backends, Python FastAPI AI services, LangSmith agent workflows), with familiarity testing distributed systems,…
  • Experience defining or improving QA processes in a fast-paced startup environment, with practical judgment about when to automate, when to test manually, and when to push back

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.