Hybrid QA Engineer

at Kira

• Job title: QA Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $110,000 - $140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Manual QA Engineer ensuring high-quality experiences in educational technology at Kira. Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers to validate new features and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Perform manual testing of new product features across web applications and AI-driven workflows
• Execute regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing to validate new functionality before release
• Run sanity checks on staging and release builds to ensure stability prior to deployment
• Write clear, detailed, and reproducible bug reports, including steps to reproduce, logs, and impact assessments
• Collaborate closely with engineers to debug issues and verify fixes
• Develop a deep understanding of the product to identify edge cases, usability issues, and quality risks
• Validate complex teacher and student workflows, including AI-generated outputs and interactive experiences
• Evaluate features not only for correctness but also usability, clarity, and user experience
• Help prioritize testing efforts based on product impact and risk
• Contribute to QA documentation, testing checklists, and release validation processes
• Participate in release readiness and post-release validation to ensure product stability

Requirements

• 2–5+ years of experience in manual software testing or quality assurance
• Strong experience performing manual regression, exploratory, and functional testing
• Experience testing web applications and user-facing products
• Ability to write clear and actionable bug reports
• Strong debugging skills and ability to work closely with engineers to reproduce issues
• High attention to detail and strong product intuition
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design
• Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment
• Strong curiosity and willingness to deeply understand product behavior and edge cases
• Nice to Have: Experience testing AI or LLM-powered products, testing complex workflows involving APIs, backend systems, or data pipelines, familiarity with basic developer tools, testing distributed systems or modern web stacks

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums
• Flexible PTO policy and company holidays
• DoorDash credit for lunch daily
• Dog friendly office 🐶