QA Engineer

<h3>About Kestra</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.kestra.io/">Kestra</a> is the universal orchestration platform: open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide, including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole, Kestra orchestrates mission critical workloads at scale. The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra">open source project</a> has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a rapidly growing global community.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo, backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face.</p><h3>The Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a QA Engineer based in India or Europe to ensure the quality and reliability of Kestra's platform across both the open source and Enterprise editions.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">A key part of this role involves working directly with customer support tickets: understanding reported issues, reproducing them in local or staging environments, and verifying fixes before they ship. You'll be the bridge between what customers experience and what the engineering team delivers.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a fully remote position. We're hiring from India and Europe for timezone alignment with the broader team.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review and analyze customer support tickets to understand reported issues, extract reproduction steps, and translate problems reported by customers into actionable bug reports for the engineering team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reproduce bugs reported by customers across different environments and configurations, ensuring the engineering team has the context they need to fix issues efficiently.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, write, and maintain test plans and test cases covering both the open source platform and Enterprise Edition features.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Perform manual and exploratory testing for new features and regression testing for existing functionality across each release cycle.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with engineers to define acceptance criteria, identify edge cases, and validate fixes before release.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to building and improving automated test coverage where applicable.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Track and report on quality metrics, test coverage, and recurring issue patterns to help the team prioritize improvements.</p></li></ul><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in software QA with a strong foundation in both manual and automated testing methodologies.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ability to read and interpret customer support tickets, often with incomplete information, and systematically reproduce issues. This is central to the role.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Knowledge of the basics of Linux. You're comfortable navigating the command line, managing files and processes, and working in a Linux environment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands on experience with Claude Code for everyday engineering and testing work.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with infrastructure and orchestration concepts: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or workflow automation tools. You'll need this context to test effectively.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable working with APIs, reading logs, and navigating distributed systems to trace issues.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience writing automated tests (for instance, in Java, Python, or TypeScript) and working with test frameworks.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong written communication in English. You'll collaborate with a globally distributed team and document issues clearly.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Self directed and detail oriented. You can prioritize across incoming support issues and planned test cycles without heavy oversight.</p></li></ul><h3>Bonus Points</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Past experience in a QA role that involved direct interaction with issues reported by customers or support escalations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with open source software or B2B SaaS platforms.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with orchestration or workflow tools (Airflow, n8n, Terraform, Ansible, or similar).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with Playwright and agent-browser for browser based and automated testing.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with performance testing or load testing for distributed systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Knowledge of Java (Kestra's core is written in Java).</p></li></ul><h3>What You Get</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A product used for mission critical workloads, not demos.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.</p></li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>