Kestra is the universal orchestration platform: open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.
Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide, including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole, Kestra orchestrates mission critical workloads at scale. The open source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a rapidly growing global community.
In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo, backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face.
The RoleWe're looking for a QA Engineer based in India or Europe to ensure the quality and reliability of Kestra's platform across both the open source and Enterprise editions.
A key part of this role involves working directly with customer support tickets: understanding reported issues, reproducing them in local or staging environments, and verifying fixes before they ship. You'll be the bridge between what customers experience and what the engineering team delivers.
This is a fully remote position. We're hiring from India and Europe for timezone alignment with the broader team.
What You'll DoReview and analyze customer support tickets to understand reported issues, extract reproduction steps, and translate problems reported by customers into actionable bug reports for the engineering team.
Reproduce bugs reported by customers across different environments and configurations, ensuring the engineering team has the context they need to fix issues efficiently.
Design, write, and maintain test plans and test cases covering both the open source platform and Enterprise Edition features.
Perform manual and exploratory testing for new features and regression testing for existing functionality across each release cycle.
Collaborate with engineers to define acceptance criteria, identify edge cases, and validate fixes before release.
Contribute to building and improving automated test coverage where applicable.
Track and report on quality metrics, test coverage, and recurring issue patterns to help the team prioritize improvements.
Experience in software QA with a strong foundation in both manual and automated testing methodologies.
Ability to read and interpret customer support tickets, often with incomplete information, and systematically reproduce issues. This is central to the role.
Knowledge of the basics of Linux. You're comfortable navigating the command line, managing files and processes, and working in a Linux environment.
Hands on experience with Claude Code for everyday engineering and testing work.
Familiarity with infrastructure and orchestration concepts: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or workflow automation tools. You'll need this context to test effectively.
Comfortable working with APIs, reading logs, and navigating distributed systems to trace issues.
Experience writing automated tests (for instance, in Java, Python, or TypeScript) and working with test frameworks.
Strong written communication in English. You'll collaborate with a globally distributed team and document issues clearly.
Self directed and detail oriented. You can prioritize across incoming support issues and planned test cycles without heavy oversight.
Past experience in a QA role that involved direct interaction with issues reported by customers or support escalations.
Experience with open source software or B2B SaaS platforms.
Familiarity with orchestration or workflow tools (Airflow, n8n, Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
Experience with Playwright and agent-browser for browser based and automated testing.
Experience with performance testing or load testing for distributed systems.
Knowledge of Java (Kestra's core is written in Java).
Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.
Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.
A product used for mission critical workloads, not demos.
Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.
Skills Required
- Experience in software QA with manual and automated testing methodologies.
- Ability to read and interpret customer support tickets and reproduce issues.
- Basic Linux knowledge and comfort with the command line.
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code for engineering and testing work.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfort working with APIs, reading logs, and debugging distributed systems.
- Experience writing automated tests in Java, Python, or TypeScript and using test frameworks.
- Strong written English communication.
- Self-directed, detail-oriented, and able to prioritize support and test work without heavy oversight.
- Past QA experience involving direct interaction with customer-reported issues or support escalations.
- Experience with open source software or B2B SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with orchestration/workflow tools (Airflow, n8n) and infra-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with Playwright and agent-browser for browser-based automated testing.
- Experience with performance or load testing for distributed systems.
- Knowledge of Java (Kestra core is Java).
What We Do
Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform that makes both scheduled and event-driven workflows easy. By bringing Infrastructure as Code best practices to data, process, and microservice orchestration, you can build reliable workflows and manage them with confidence. In just a few lines of code, you can create a flow directly from the UI. Thanks to the declarative YAML interface for defining orchestration logic, business stakeholders can participate in the workflow creation process. Kestra offers a versatile set of language-agnostic developer tools while simultaneously providing an intuitive user interface tailored for business professionals. The YAML definition gets automatically adjusted any time you make changes to a workflow from the UI or via an API call. Therefore, the orchestration logic is always managed declaratively in code, even if some workflow components are modified in other ways (UI, CI/CD, Terraform, API calls).
