Manual QA Engineer

The role

You will perform manual testing, exploratory testing, and validation of new features across web applications and AI-driven workflows. You will work with product managers, engineers, and designers to identify issues and advocate for the end-user experience.

What you will do

• 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
• 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 for correctness, 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

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in manual software testing or quality assurance
• Experience and expertise in QA processes and UI/UX testing (web and mobile)
• 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
• Experience testing complex workflows involving APIs, backend systems, or data pipelines
• Familiarity with basic developer tools (browser dev tools, logs, network inspection)
• Experience testing distributed systems or modern web stacks

Benefits

• Team lunches
• Dog friendly office
• Base compensation and equity if converted to FT
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums
• DoorDash credit for lunch daily

Before you apply

• Kira will make a conditional job offer
• A subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued

About the company

Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds. Their mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone.