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Lead Quality Engineer

Kaav Inc.

Title: Lead Quality Engineer


Location: Hybrid, Bay Area (San Mateo, 3x/week)


Salary: K + equity


Benefits include: health benefits, 401K, commuter benefits, annual international retreats


8am-5pm work hours; weekly Monday morning All Hands at 8am


Reports to: VP of Engineering


Series A startup, has PMF; scaling within 1 quarter

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive our quality strategy: Develop a cohesive strategy that can support the combinatorics complexity that exists in our enterprise software due to: which packages / SKUs are deployed, feature flags, third-party system integrations, etc.
  • Enable teams through soft influence: Use high EQ and clear communication to foster buy-in and strong execution of quality practices. Empower teams with a deep understanding of how to identify edge- and corner-cases, boundary conditions, etc.
  • Automate test environments: Write code to automate the process of spinning up and tearing down AWS-based test stacks, both scheduled and on demand, accounting for multiple configurations and feature flags.
  • Manage test data at scale: Develop and maintain robust methods to clone and anonymize test data from production environments, as well as generate test data (using factories, etc.) for a wide range of scenarios.
  • Leverage emerging tools: Investigate and implement AI-powered end-to-end testing frameworks to enhance coverage and efficiency.
Qualifications Required:
  • 5+ years quality engineering at scale
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • Strong ownership mindset
  • Experience with Python, Django, Celery, Postrgres, AWS, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, E2E testing frameworks
  • Experience leading & mentoring more junior engineers
  • Bonus points for: experience with ElasticSearch, Dagster, Airflow and other data orchestration tools + AI-driven E2E testing ( aka Checksum.ai )
Benefits
  • Competitive base salary + equity
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
  • 401K and commuter benefits
  • Annual international retreats
  • Flexible, outcome-based culture
  • Ground-floor growth opportunity
  • Work with education thought leaders
  • Customer-centric, innovative environment
Vacancy posted 5 days ago
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