QA Engineer

The Company

GitKraken is the developer experience (DevEx) platform of choice for more than 40 million developers and 100,000 organizations globally. Combining built-in AI and powerful workflow orchestration, GitKraken empowers development teams to eliminate unnecessary toil, streamline collaboration, and accelerate productivity. GitKraken’s seamless integrations with leading Git providers, issue tracking tools, and AI solutions make it the most versatile DevEx platform available across desktop, command line, IDE, web, and mobile environments. Discover smarter, faster development at www.gitkraken.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

The Role

We are looking for a QA Engineer on our GitKraken Desktop team to develop and execute automated tests to ensure quality across our products. In this role, you'll take ownership of code quality and collaborate across the GitKraken R&D and QA teams to ensure robust test coverage for our Git productivity and collaboration tools.

We are committed to having an inclusive and authentic work environment where unique perspectives, skills, and backgrounds are celebrated. We work hard to foster diversity in our workplace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements, don't let self-filtering and imposter syndrome get in the way of a great fit. We would love to hear from you!

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for the GitKraken Desktop application to ensure a seamless developer experience.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deeply understand feature requirements and user workflows.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and regressions, helping prioritize fixes that deliver the most value to our users.
• Continuously improve test coverage and enhance our testing frameworks and pipelines, contributing to a robust CI/CD process.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and ensure high product quality beyond the "happy path".
• Analyze test results and provide clear, actionable feedback to engineering teams.
• Help shape quality standards and advocate for best practices in test automation and software quality within the team.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing, mentoring teammates where needed.
• Champion the voice of the developer, ensuring that our tools empower and delight millions of users worldwide.

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years of professional experience in QA engineering
• Extensive Manual testing experience
• Experience with responsiveness and cross-browser testing
• Multi-OS familiarity, including Windows, OS X, and Linux
• Must be able to write test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other test artifacts
• Strong understanding of coding practices, including code reviews
• Experience developing unit, component, regression, and end-to-end tests in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Knowledge of testing libraries and frameworks like Jasmine and Playwright
• Familiarity with Git
• Experience using  version control, continuous integration and issue tracking tools (Git, Docker, Jenkins, JIRA)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish 
• Ability to seek new methods or tools, including AI, improve testing strategy and personal growth

Bonus points

• Experience with performance testing (Jmeter, K6)
• Experience with AI response evaluation tools.
• API and contract testing (Postman)

How you’ll be rewarded

💵  Excellence — Competitive compensation with annual performance-based pay increases

🏖  Balance — Generous Paid-Time-Off Policy and country-specific paid holidays

🍎  Health —  Private insurance options 

📚  Growth — Paid career and personal development, audiobooks, and mentorship

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: 

At GitKraken, we believe that diversity among our teammates is critical to our success as a company. GitKraken evaluates all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, gender expression, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability status, or any other legally protected class. We recruit, hire, and retain top talent from a diverse candidate pool.