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About the role

  • QA Manager building AI-native automation frameworks and leading QA teams for Knotch’s AI-native website infrastructure. Improving testing, quality, and release confidence across cloud-based products.

Responsibilities

  • Manage automation suites across all products
  • Create, maintain, and execute scripts during regression, smoke, and sanity testing in various environments
  • Build out testing frameworks from scratch
  • Hire and build a QA team
  • Develop AI-native automation
  • Manage an offshore QA team and build a US team as needed
  • Create automated test and validation processes for APIs on cloud services
  • Build comprehensive test suites for engineering and product organizations
  • Recommend and maintain frameworks to automate test scenarios
  • Define testing and evaluation strategies for AI-powered features, including regression testing, output quality, reliability, edge cases, and non-deterministic behavior
  • Analyze and report on test automation progress
  • Perform manual, exploratory, and performance testing
  • Analyze test results, perform root-cause analyses, and file tickets in JIRA as necessary
  • Establish test automation code coverage metrics
  • Collaborate with product, project management, and software engineering to define testing best practices
  • Lead the quality function at Knotch and shape how products are built, tested, and released

Requirements

  • 8+ years of QA engineering experience
  • 2+ years leading or managing a test automation team
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools and agents for test automation
  • Strong expertise in automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Watir, HeadSpin or similar
  • Proven ability to define tool strategy and build scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up
  • Experience writing scalable, reusable test scripts and running them in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Solid experience with manual and automated API testing, including Postman
  • Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them
  • Practical experience with source control systems (e.g., Git)
  • Familiarity with AWS, GCP or similar cloud platforms
  • Working knowledge of SQL
  • Excellent communication and mentorship skills, with experience leading distributed teams
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience) — nice to have
  • QA or testing certifications (e.g., ISTQB) or cloud certifications (AWS/GCP) — nice to have
  • Experience with performance and load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, Locust) — nice to have
  • Eastern Time Zone location for easier collaboration with the team and offshore partners — nice to have
  • Candidates may work from anywhere within Canada

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits through our employer of record (EOR) relationship with Globalization Partners
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 10+ company-paid holidays
  • Wellness and work-from-home perks
  • Company and team offsites
  • A daily company-wide break

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$136,000 - CA$163,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudCypressGoogle Cloud PlatformJMeterSeleniumSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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