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
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