AI-Native QA Manager: Automation Leader

Knotch; Canada; Remote; CAD 136,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

10+ holidays

Wellness perks

Offsites

Job summary

Knotch is seeking an exceptionally skilled QA Manager to lead automation across all products in a fast‑paced, AI‑driven environment. You will build testing frameworks from scratch, manage offshore teams, and establish automated APIs validation on cloud services.

You will mentor engineers, shape testing strategies for AI features, and collaborate with product and agile leadership to raise quality across the organization. This fully remote Canada‑based role offers significant impact and growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years QA engineering experience, including 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, and working knowledge of SQL.
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills, with experience leading distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on automation development that is AI native
• Managing an offshore QA team and building out a US team as needed
• Creating automated test and validation processes of APIs on cloud services
• Building comprehensive test suites that will be utilized by overall engineering and product organizations
• Recommending and maintaining appropriate 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
• Analyzing and reporting on test automation progress
• Performing manual, exploratory and performance testing
• Analyzing test results, performing RCAs and file tickets as necessary in JIRA
• Establishing test automation code coverage metrics
• Collaborating closely with our product manager, project manager (agile), and software engineers to define best practices for testing our applications (both internal and external facing)

Skills

QA management

Test automation

Automation tools

CI/CD

API testing

Cloud testing

Leadership

Education

BS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

Git

AWS/GCP

Job description

Knotch is seeking an exceptionally skilled QA Manager to lead automation across all products in a fast‑paced, AI‑driven environment. You will build testing frameworks from scratch, manage offshore teams, and establish automated APIs validation on cloud services.

You will mentor engineers, shape testing strategies for AI features, and collaborate with product and agile leadership to raise quality across the organization. This fully remote Canada‑based role offers significant impact and growth.