Senior QA Engineer - Remote

About the role

Kake is a remote-first company of senior engineers behind products for brands ranging from Fortune 500 to fast-growing companies. It is looking for Senior QA Engineers with strong experience in manual or automated testing, who can own quality end-to-end and work closely with product and engineering teams to ship reliable software.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute test strategies, test plans and test cases.
• Perform manual testing to find functional, integration, usability and edge-case issues.
• Create, maintain and improve automated test suites and testing frameworks.
• Test web applications, APIs and backend services for functionality, reliability and performance.
• Validate AI-generated code and features against quality, maintainability and business requirements.
• Investigate defects, perform root cause analysis and work with developers on fixes.
• Contribute to quality best practices and continuous improvement, and take part in requirement reviews to spot risks early.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Testing.
• Strong experience with both manual and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience testing web apps, APIs, mobile apps and backend systems.
• Ability to review application code and understand system behavior when investigating issues.
• Excellent written and verbal English and ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.
• Nice to have: experience testing software built with AI coding tools, programming in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java or C#, and performance, security, accessibility or load testing.

Required skills

• Automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or WebdriverIO.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development workflows.

What we offer

• Competitive pay in USD, paid globally.
• Fully remote work.
• A Better Me Fund investing in personal growth and passions.
• A community that supports social good.