{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a181098b102b29fcb258a8a6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a181098b102b29fcb258a8a6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a181098b102b29fcb258a8a6","title":"Staff Quality Engineer","description":"Kikoff: A FinTech Unicorn Powering Financial Progress with AI\n\nAt Kikoff, our mission is to provide radically affordable financial tools to help consumers achieve financial security. We're a profitable, high growth FinTech unicorn serving millions of people, many of whom are building credit or navigating life paycheck to paycheck. With innovative technology and AI, we simplify credit building, reduce debt, and expand access to financial opportunities to those who need them the most. Founded in 2019, Kikoff is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by top-tier VC investors and NBA star Stephen Curry.\n\nWhy Kikoff:\n\nThis is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\nYou will be our first QA Automation Manager at Kikoff, a fintech company building products that help Americans build credit. With millions of users trusting our platform, quality isn't just important - it is essential to our mission. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity: you will have full ownership to define testing strategy, build automation frameworks from scratch, establish quality processes, and create tools that enable product teams to own quality at scale.\n\nThis is a player-coach role: you'll write code, build infrastructure, and hire your team.\n\nIN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL\nLead & Hire\n\nBuild your quality engineering team from the ground up\n\nCollaborate with InfoSec Manager on compliance testing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)\n\nAdvise Core Platform and product teams on production monitoring\n\nReport quality metrics and program maturity to leadership\n\nBuild Quality Capability & Processes\n\nDesign test automation frameworks for backend (Ruby), web (JS), and mobile (Dart/Flutter)\n\nExpand automated testing from current unit test coverage to integration, e2e, and UI/UX automation\n\nEstablish quality processes: testing standards, code review practices, defect workflows\n\nCreate self-service testing tools that product teams adopt independently\n\nBuild contract testing, integration testing, performance testing, and visual regression capabilities\n\nPartner with Core Platform on ephemeral environments and local execution automation\n\nIntegrate testing seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines\n\nEnable & Scale\n\nTrain product engineers on testing frameworks and quality practices\n\nBuild documentation and runbooks that empower self-service\n\nDrive adoption through metrics: coverage gaps, flaky tests, execution performance, quality trends\n\nAutomate everything—start manual where needed, systematically eliminate it\n\nIdentify and close quality gaps not covered by product teams (especially UI/UX flows)\n\nYOU HAVE\n\n7+ years quality engineering, 3+ years building test automation and quality processes from scratch\n\n2+ years of management experience\n\nPlayer-coach experience: built frameworks while hiring and leading teams\n\nExpert in test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium)\n\nStrong coding ability in Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar\n\nCI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)\n\nExperience with UI/UX test automation and visual regression testing\n\nPerformance testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)\n\nBuilt internal testing platforms and quality processes that teams actually adopted\n\nCan influence without authority—you enable, don't gatekeep\n\nSelf-starter who builds programs from ambiguity\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\nFintech or regulated industry experience\n\nMobile test automation experience\n\nInfrastructure-as-code familiarity (Pulumi, Terraform)\n\nAccessibility testing experience\n\nOpen source testing framework contributions\n\nBase Range: $200,000 – $240,000 USD\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\n\nKikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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