Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Leapsome
+ Equity package
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1+ day a week in office
Performance management platform
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Performance management platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity package
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make work more fulfilling for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Share our belief that QA is a core part of engineering, not a separate process, and are passionate about ensuring quality across the entire product lifecycle
- Have 5+ years of experience in quality assurance or software testing, with a strong focus on automation
- Are proficient with automation tools like Playwright or Cypress and have experience designing reusable frameworks
- Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment where priorities shift, and enjoy collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers
- Are skilled in exploratory and manual testing, with an eye for spotting edge cases and understanding complex workflows
- Are excited by the opportunity to experiment with AI/LLMs to redefine traditional QA approaches
- Value pragmatic excellence, balancing speed with a commitment to delivering reliable, high-quality features
- Enjoy mentoring teammates and fostering a collaborative environment where quality is a shared responsibility
- If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles
What the job involves
- Join a highly collaborative and product-focused engineering team that’s redefining how quality assurance integrates with software development
- At Leapsome, QA is not a separate silo - it’s an integral part of the engineering process
- As a Senior QA Engineer, you will work closely with developers, product managers, customer success and designers to ensure every feature delivers exceptional quality and user satisfaction
- This role combines hands-on testing, automation, and innovative problem-solving
- You’ll have the opportunity to drive automation efforts with tools like Playwright, screen and refine incoming tasks, and support scheduled release processes with manual testing where needed
- Beyond this, you’ll play a key role in holding the engineering team to our quality standards, championing best practices, and exploring innovative approaches, such as leveraging AI in testing
- You'll drive the design and implementation of automation frameworks using tools like Playwright, ensuring scalable, reliable, and maintainable test coverage
- Collaborate closely with engineers during the development lifecycle to identify edge cases and potential pitfalls early
- Screen and refine incoming tasks, ensuring clear requirements and testability before development begins
- Conduct exploratory testing for complex workflows and manual testing during scheduled release cycles to ensure seamless launches
- Challenge engineers to uphold high-quality standards in code, functionality, and user experience, contributing to a culture of engineering excellence
- Experiment with AI-driven testing approaches, identifying opportunities to enhance the speed and depth of QA processes
- Monitor production systems and implement automated checks to maintain platform reliability and detect regressions proactively
- Contribute to cross-functional projects, offering insights into testing strategies for smarter platform initiatives or AI-powered features
- Document QA strategies and findings, fostering a learning environment and helping scale QA knowledge across the team
- Technology Stack:
- Automation Frameworks: Playwright, Vitest, and Mocha/Chai for comprehensive automated testing
- Infrastructure: Docker, Github Actions and AWS for scalable CI/CD pipelines and production systems
- Collaboration: GitHub, Notion, and async communication tools to work transparently with the engineering team
- Analytics: Mixpanel, Sentry, and Datadog to track feature performance and identify issues
- AI/LLMs: Leveraging AI technologies like GPT from OpenAI for innovative testing strategies and smarter debugging processes
Application process
- Just send us your CV. You won't need to input any information already mentioned on your CV later on - promise! 🤙
- A cover letter isn’t necessary, but we’d really appreciate a brief answer to these questions: Why Leapsome? Why you?
- We look forward to getting to know you!
Our take
Berlin-founded, New York-based Leapsome is a ‘people enablement’ platform that works to improve employee performance and satisfaction through various methods from feedback and OKRs to employee engagement and corporate learning options.
Recognising the amount of time a person will spend in a work environment, the company aims to help employees grow and develop in this time, whilst boosting a company’s efficiency and productivity. Over a relatively short time, it has amounted trust and respect within the industry.
The company has now accrued over one thousand customers across Europe, U.S, Asia and Australia, including impressive clients such as Spotify and Merecedes-Benz. Leapsome has also raised considerable funding towards accelerating its US market presence whilst continuing to develop new products and features.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
87% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Become part of a fast-growing scale-up taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025
- Join a diverse and international team of talented, smart, and kind people
- We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes — big and small
- Enjoy our hybrid model by working from home or in our offices in the heart of Berlin, Germany
- Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of €2,000
- Experience a healthy work-life balance with flexible work hours and the option of working abroad for up to 2 months per year
- Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking, laser tag, and game nights
- Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership
- Take 30 vacation days every year (plus public holidays)
- Receive competitive pay and a pre-IPO equity package
- Get support and sponsorship for relocation (if needed)
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jenny von Podewils
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded udexter and has served as Advisor to the CEO for DIE ZEIT.
Kajetan von Armansperg
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded Alive and served as Vice President of Product for Zencap.
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