Job Responsibilities : Software Engineer Lead – QA – US Remote
Salary : Competitive Salary
Company : Knack Global LLC
Hi, thanks for reading about our Software Engineer Lead – QA opportunity! We’re glad you’re here.
We’re Knack, a no-code productivity platform that’s redefining how work gets done. Knack is used by thousands of customers — from non-profits to the world’s biggest organizations — to run processes, departments, and even entire companies.
We need a capable Software Engineer Lead – QA to help us deliver an outstanding and reliable product.
We’re looking for someone who’s not just an expert at reading and executing on test cases, but someone who can assess and improve our test coverage.
And did I mention self-motivated and independent? This is a 100% remote role, with a flat culture that gives you the autonomy to define how you can do the best work of your career.
In this role, you will:
Lead a QA team including automation engineers and manual qa engineers
Write maintainable and reusable automated tests using automated testing frameworks (Playwright / Jest)
Identify highest value opportunities to transition existing manual test plans to automated coverage
Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to create robust automated testing pipelines as part of CI/CD process
Maintain internal documentation on QA best practices, notes, and SOPs, so others can assist with QA with minimal friction
Create detailed test plans in collaboration with product, engineering, and success teams
Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on tests and test plans
Review bug reports and identify opportunities to create automated tests to cover these newly discovered scenarios
Develop/Enhance regression test suite, covering most critical areas of the application first
We’re looking for someone who is:
A logical and critical thinker. You can quickly get up to speed and understand complex domain knowledge.
Experienced communicator who can work with cross-functional teams to create and execute plans.
Passionate about process and structure. You can prioritize what is most important and create repeatable processes to improve common workflows.
Focused on the problem. You can go heads down to understand the root cause of a bug.
You embrace a dynamic and fast paced environment. You have experience balancing multiple projects and priorities.
Humble but opinionated. You have lots of ideas, yet you are happy to shift directions when a better path emerges. You take your work much more seriously than you take yourself.
Engaging beyond tests. You understand that empathizing with our customers, building relationships with your co-workers, and going deep on the product makes you a better teammate and a better engineer.
Our Stack:
Back-end: JavaScript, Node.js, ES6
Data: Both SQL and NoSQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Solr, ElasticSearch
DevOps & Deployment: All things AWS, Jenkins, Github
Testing: Playwright, Mocha, Jest
Front-end: Vue.js, Webpack, SCSSAbout Knack
✨ Benefits ✨
The biggest benefit of Knack is getting to work alongside our awesome team of Knackleheads. We’re a funny, humble, talented team of delightful human beings that, above all, enjoy working with each other, growing with each other, and supporting each other.
These benefits aren’t that bad either, though:
🕧 Define your work: find the location, environment, and schedule that is best for your life and work. It’s not about separation, it’s about optimization. Our only rule is an overlap zone of 11am to 4pm EST.
🌏 Unlimited Paid Vacation: take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. You’ll get required days off for birthdays and knackiversaries.
🛫 Paid Corporate Retreats: we get together twice a year at amazing locations to do normal human being things in person. We pay for your flight, lodging, and meals.
🚑 HealthCare: we offer health, vision, and dental, covering 75% of the premium for you and your dependents (spouse + children).
💵 401(k): we give you the option to automatically deduct funds from your pay to stash them away for your golden years (currently non-matching, but stay tuned!)
☮ Equal opportunity: we push everyone to maximize their impact on our product and company–we strongly value all of our people, regardless of title or seniority.
🧠 Learning Credits – An annual allowance is provided to stay on top of your game with classes, books, and conferences.
💓 Family support: we offer a generous paid family leave to welcome any new additions to your family.
💻 Tech: we provide a top-of-the-line MacBook. About Knack
👋 Hi! We’re Knack 😀
We launched in 2012 with one simple goal: to enable everyone to do amazing things with their data.
Knack makes it easy for anyone to build applications and workflows to make their data useful. Our customers use Knack to run their processes, departments, or even their entire companies.
We’ve been growing steadily since as we’ve built our team, perfected our product, and nailed our product-market fit.
So how are we different? 🙃
🌐 We’re 100% remote: and have been from the beginning. Every decision we’ve made has been based on optimizing our remote operations.
🌟 We take culture seriously: We’re not one of those companies that just slaps some cultural adjectives down in a handbook article then calls it a day. We use our cultural values as our north stars and even have an always active culture committee that is dedicated to ensuring that our culture is maintained and evolves as we grow.
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🦄 We’re all a little weird: and we like it that way. We’re more than just chat avatars; we’ve all gotten to know each other, have grown together, and love working with each other.
🚀 We enjoy the journey: we’re in this for the long haul. We’re building something we’re proud of and want to keep improving on.
You can read more about Knack and the team here.
🌈 Diversity 🌈
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what makes a company flourish. Knack welcomes all applicants regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, or status. We’re proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we embrace diversity.
👀 How To Apply 👀
Are you currently so excited to apply that you can barely type? ⚡Then we want to hear from you! You can apply for this position by filling out the application.
We review applications in batches, so don’t worry if you don’t hear from us right away. Qualified candidates will move on to video interviews to discuss the position in detail, meet the team, and talk through the fit. We’re also big believers in paid trials whenever logistically possible.
