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Lead Quality Engineer
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San Mateo, San Mateo County, California, 94497, USA
Listed on 2026-06-02
Listing for:
Kaav, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-02
Job specializations:
-
Software Development
Software Engineer, DevOps
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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.
- 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 Elastic Search, Dagster, Airflow and other data orchestration tools + AI-driven E2E testing (
aka Checksum.ai
)
- 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
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