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Kapitus

Direct lender and lending marketplace

QE Automation Lead

Test Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time$117.8k - $189k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, including at least three years leading automation initiatives or providing technical leadership across multiple teams.
  • Ability to lead, influence, and align distributed quality-engineering teams without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
  • Advanced hands-on experience designing, coding, debugging, and reviewing automation using Playwright with TypeScript or comparable modern technologies.
  • Experience building scalable automation frameworks and reusable libraries across user interface, application programming interface, integration, end-to-end, and data layers.
  • Knowledge of software architecture, object-oriented programming, test design patterns, clean code, and maintainable automation practices.
  • Experience integrating automation with continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms and implementing quality gates, parallel execution, cross-browser coverage, reporting, and failure diagnostics.
  • Experience defining and communicating quality key performance indicators and using metrics to drive decisions, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
  • Knowledge of application programming interface testing, test-data management, backend validation, SQL, and service-integration testing.
  • Experience testing Salesforce solutions and full-stack applications across user interface, application programming interface, integration, and data layers.
  • Experience mentoring, coaching, and conducting technical reviews to raise engineering standards across teams.
  • Experience communicating with executives and stakeholders about quality status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
  • Analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills in complex delivery environments.
  • Knowledge of Agile and 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 continuous integration and delivery tooling.
  • Automation leadership experience in strategy, framework governance, coding standards, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team adoption.
  • Advanced Playwright and TypeScript experience, including reusable fixtures, page and component models, parallel execution, cross-browser testing, tracing, and reporting.
  • Experience automating functional, regression, application programming interface, integration, end-to-end, contract, and data-validation testing.
  • Experience with Salesforce and full-stack applications across front-end, back-end, application programming interface, integration, and data layers.
  • Experience with Postman, Swagger and OpenAPI, REST and JSON, SQL, and backend validation.
  • Experience with GitHub or Bitbucket, pull-request workflows, and pipeline integration using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
  • Experience measuring automation coverage, pass rate, flaky-test rate, defect trends, escaped defects, execution duration, and release readiness.
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Zephyr Scale for test management and collaboration.
  • Working knowledge of security, accessibility, and performance-testing principles.

Responsibilities

  • Own the automation strategy and technical direction across multiple quality-engineering teams, products, and delivery streams.
  • Align quality priorities, delivery risks, and release-readiness expectations with Product, Development, DevOps, Architecture, and Leadership.
  • Design, evolve, and govern scalable automation frameworks and reusable components using Playwright with TypeScript.
  • Establish automation standards for test design, code quality, reviews, branching, test data, maintainability, reporting, and framework adoption.
  • Develop, review, debug, and optimize automated tests across user-interface, application-programming-interface, integration, end-to-end, and data-validation layers.
  • Integrate automated tests and quality gates into continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for fast, reliable feedback across the delivery lifecycle, and move toward automation in the Definition of Done.
  • Define and report actionable quality and automation metrics, including coverage, pass rate, defect trends, escape rate, flaky-test rate, execution time, and automation effectiveness.
  • Use data and risk-based analysis to prioritize automation investment, identify quality gaps, and communicate product risk and release readiness to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Lead root-cause analysis for complex failures and recurring defects, distinguishing application, environment, test-data, integration, and automation issues.
  • Guide, review, pair with, and develop quality-engineering engineers, raising engineering standards across the team.
  • Coordinate work across distributed teams, remove roadblocks, and drive consistent execution and accountability.
  • Improve story testability, acceptance criteria, test planning, and in-sprint automation so quality moves earlier in development.
  • Lead the transition from manual regression to automated regression, retiring manual effort as automated coverage proves out and runs successfully in continuous integration, and capture manual test cases in automation as the transition proceeds.
  • Evaluate emerging tools and artificial-intelligence-assisted testing approaches, applying governance and quality controls before adoption.
  • Track fintech trends, regulatory considerations, cloud technologies, and modern quality-engineering practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in financial services, regulated environments, or high-availability platforms.
  • Experience with Python, JavaScript, SQL, Java, Selenium, Cypress, Pytest, Rest Assured, or Cucumber.
  • Experience with AWS services, containerized test execution, cloud-based test environments, and observability platforms.
  • Experience with performance testing using JMeter or k6, and accessibility-testing standards and tools.
  • Experience migrating legacy automation suites to Playwright or consolidating multiple frameworks.
  • Experience applying artificial-intelligence-assisted testing responsibly to improve test design, coverage, maintenance, or defect analysis.
  • Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, AWS, Agile, or DevOps.

About the Company

Kapitus

Direct lender and lending marketplace

Kapitus provides small business financing through a hybrid model that combines direct lending with a marketplace of lending partners. It offers a range of products, including term loans, SBA loans, revenue-based financing, equipment financing, and revolving lines of credit, plus specialized options like Helix Healthcare Financing. Its KapitusPLUS platform lets a business submit a single application to receive and compare multiple offers from Kapitus and its network, enabling rapid decisions (approvals in about four hours) and funding within 24 hours. This approach differentiates Kapitus from competitors by offering a unified, fast-access funding ecosystem with a diverse product set and a broad network of lenders. The company aims to give established small to mid-sized businesses quick, flexible access to capital across the United States to support growth and working capital needs.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$805M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2006

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