Manual QA Engineer (Contract to Hire)

We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. Kira's mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera.

Quality is critical to ensuring teachers and students can rely on our product every day. As a Manual QA Engineer, you will help ensure a high-quality, reliable experience across our platform. This role is focused on hands-on manual testing, exploratory testing, and validating new features before they reach production. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to deeply understand new features, identify potential issues early, and advocate for the end-user experience. You will play a key role in verifying functionality across complex workflows, including AI-powered features where outputs may be non-deterministic.

This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, curious about how products work, and passionate about delivering high-quality user experiences.

What You’ll Do

- Perform manual testing of new product features across web applications and AI-driven workflows

- Execute regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing to validate new functionality before release

- Run sanity checks on staging and release builds to ensure stability prior to deployment

- Write clear, detailed, and reproducible bug reports, including steps to reproduce, logs, and impact assessments

- Collaborate closely with engineers to debug issues and verify fixes

- Develop a deep understanding of the product to identify edge cases, usability issues, and quality risks

- Validate complex teacher and student workflows, including AI-generated outputs and interactive experienc...