6 hours ago
Remote, United States or Washington, DC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$118k - $189k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the automation strategy and technical direction across multiple QE teams, products, and delivery streams.
- Design, evolve, and govern scalable automation frameworks and reusable components using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Develop, review, debug, and optimize automated UI, API, integration, end-to-end, contract, regression, and data-validation tests.
- Integrate automated testing, quality gates, parallel execution, reporting, and diagnostics into CI/CD pipelines.
- Define and report quality metrics including coverage, pass rate, defect trends, escape rate, flaky-test rate, execution time, and automation effectiveness.
- Use risk-based analysis to prioritize automation investment, identify quality gaps, and communicate product risk and release readiness.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex failures and recurring defects across applications, environments, test data, integrations, and automation.
- Mentor, coach, review, and grow QE engineers while raising engineering standards across teams.
- Coordinate distributed delivery, remove roadblocks, and drive consistent execution and accountability.
- Lead the transition from manual regression to automated regression and evaluate AI-assisted testing tools with appropriate governance.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, including three or more automation initiatives or technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Proven ability to lead, influence, and align distributed QE teams without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
- Advanced hands-on experience designing, coding, debugging, and reviewing automation with Playwright and TypeScript or comparable technologies.
- Experience building scalable automation frameworks and reusable libraries across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and data layers.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, object-oriented programming, test design patterns, clean code, and maintainable automation practices.
- Experience with CI/CD integration, quality gates, parallel execution, cross-browser coverage, reporting, and failure diagnostics.
- Experience defining and using quality KPIs to drive prioritization and continuous improvement.
- Strong knowledge of API testing, test-data management, backend validation, SQL, and service-integration testing.
- Experience testing Salesforce solutions and full-stack applications across front-end, back-end, API, integration, and data layers.
- Strong mentoring, coaching, technical-review, executive communication, stakeholder-management, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, shift-left testing, risk-based testing, and the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Zephyr Scale, Git-based workflows, and modern CI/CD tooling.
- Preferred experience includes financial services, regulated environments, high-availability platforms, Python, JavaScript, Java, Selenium, Cypress, Pytest, Rest Assured, Cucumber, AWS, JMeter, k6, and relevant ISTQB, AWS, Agile, or DevOps certifications.
Benefits
- Annual incentive compensation eligibility of up to 10%.
- Medical, dental, employer-paid vision, disability, supplemental life, accident, and hospitalization insurance options.
- Flexible spending, lifestyle spending, commuter, wellness, discount, and employee assistance-related benefits.
- Company-paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off, and sick time.
- Up to $5,000 annually in tuition reimbursement plus conference and career-development opportunities.
- Travel reimbursement for work-related travel.
- 401(k) plan through Fidelity with a 25% company match on employee contributions up to 6% of annual salary.
- Remote candidates may be considered if they reside in a state where Kapitus or a subsidiary has an established physical presence.
Tech Stack
Apache JMeterAWSCucumberCypressGitHub ActionsJavaJavaScriptJenkinsPostmanpytestPythonSeleniumSQLTypeScript
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About Kapitus
Kapitus provides financing to U.S. small businesses as both a direct lender and a marketplace that connects applicants to a network of funding partners. Its products include working-capital term loans, revenue-based financing, equipment financing, and lines of credit delivered through an online application and broker channels. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Kapitus is privately held and part of InterVest Capital Partners.