# QA Automation Lead at Kira

- Company: Kira
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.kira-learning.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kira/858982fb-8df9-4100-ac91-0a1a0f5234ff
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kira-qa-automation-lead/

## 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

Tags: Engineering