Senior QA Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)
Platform Engineering · QA · Berlin · Hybrid · Full-time
Your role at Kittl
Kittl's editor is a browser-based design tool, and every release has to hold up across canvas, typography, effects, export and AI workflows for millions of users. As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll be embedded in our Editor team and take part in the full feature cycle, from requirement reviews to release sign-off. You'll own quality for that team: deciding what to test, how deep to go and what to automate, so we ship faster without shipping bugs. This role reports to the QA Manager.
What you'll do
- Testing strategy: Own the test approach for the Editor team's features and releases, choosing functional, integration, regression and performance coverage based on real risk
- Early risk detection: Join requirement and design discussions to catch edge cases and quality gaps before code is written
- Automation: Write and maintain Playwright + TypeScript E2E tests for critical editor and AI flows, and make the suite stable enough that engineers trust it
- Exploratory testing: Go deep on complex editor behaviour where scripts alone won't find the problem
- Release readiness: Lead bug triage and release validation, and make the call on what's ready to ship during major launches
- Raise the bar: Improve our testing frameworks, CI workflows and QA practices across teams, using AI to speed up test design, debugging and gap analysis
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience in software QA, including hands-on ownership of E2E testing for a complex web product
- Exploratory and automated testing: You're strong at both and know when each one earns its place. Purely manual or purely automation profiles won't fit
- Playwright and TypeScript: Hands-on experience building and maintaining E2E suites, ideally integrated into CI
- API testing: Comfortable testing APIs with tools like Postman or similar
- Ownership and attention to detail: You treat product quality as yours and notice what others miss
- Proactive communication: You give engineers precise, actionable feedback and go looking for context and work without waiting to be asked
Nice to have: experience testing design, image or creative tools, and a feel for concepts like vector vs raster. We'll onboard you on the rest.
Interview process
- Recruiter interview (30 min)
- Take-home assignment
- Technical interview (60 min)
- CTO interview (30 min)
- Bar Raiser interview (45 min)
Our tech stack
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Postgres, Pulumi, k8s
Testing: Playwright + TypeScript, CI-integrated E2E suite
