Senior QA Engineer — Remote-First, Drive Quality

Kake; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Kake, a remote-first company with a global community of engineers, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own quality end-to-end across web apps, APIs, and backend services. You’ll design test strategies, build automated suites, and collaborate with product and engineering to ship reliable software.

The role emphasizes strong manual and automated testing, CI/CD familiarity, and independent work in a distributed, time-zone overlapping setup, with competitive USD compensation and remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Testing.
• Strong experience with both manual and automated testing methodologies.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, mobile apps, and backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development workflows.
• Ability to review application code and understand system behavior when investigating issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
• Perform manual testing to identify 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 to ensure they meet quality, maintainability, and business requirements.
• Investigate defects, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with developers on solutions.
• Contribute to quality best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across projects.
• Participate in requirement reviews and help identify risks early in the development process.

Skills

Quality assurance

Software testing

Communication

Independent work

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

WebdriverIO

Job description

Kake, a remote-first company with a global community of engineers, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own quality end-to-end across web apps, APIs, and backend services. You’ll design test strategies, build automated suites, and collaborate with product and engineering to ship reliable software.

The role emphasizes strong manual and automated testing, CI/CD familiarity, and independent work in a distributed, time-zone overlapping setup, with competitive USD compensation and remote-first culture.