Kira is the first AI platform that delivers personalized education at scale. Use Kira alongside your existing tools, or as your complete AI-powered teaching solution. Backed by NEA.
About the role
Own and evolve our quality strategy across frontend, backend, and AI services, and be the dedicated owner of end-to-end test coverage, performance test scaffolding, and load testing Lead and grow a small QA team — mentoring engineers, setting standards, and managing at least one direct report — while staying hands-on yourself
What they're looking for
- 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 resource saturation
- Strong experience with modern testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, or PyTest, and building automated E2E suites in CI/CD
More about this role
We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. Kira's mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera.
As our QA Automation Lead, you'll own and elevate the quality bar across our platform, and build the team that sustains it. This is a player-coach role: you'll spend most of your time hands-on (designing automation, performance testing, and quality systems) while also mentoring and, over time, growing and leading a small QA team.
This is not a traditional QA role. We're looking for a senior, pragmatic engineer who is first and foremost a doer with management experience -- someone who ensures high product quality for teachers and students while modernizing how we approach testing, performance, and release confidence, including thoughtfully applying AI tools to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and...
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