Software Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re hiring a QA Engineer (Remote – India) to help us make Kestra even better for the 10,000+ engineers using it every day. Curious, hands-on, and love clean UX? This might be for you 👇

About Kestra

Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform designed for engineers. With over 1 9,000 GitHub stars and a growing global community, Kestra helps automate data, infrastructure, and business workflows at scale.

What You’ll Do

As a QA Engineer at Kestra, you’ll be one of our most hands-on users. You’ll explore new features, test functionality, and uncover anything that could be improved — from bugs 🐞 to UX friction. Your insights will help our product and engineering teams make Kestra better every day.

This role is all about curiosity, clarity, and impact. You’ll be the voice of quality and usability in the room — not just logging issues, but helping us understand how users experience the product 👀.

Your Day-to-Day

Use Kestra daily and master its capabilities

Identify and report bugs, usability issues, and edge cases

Write clear, reproducible bug reports and feedback via GitHub

Validate new features and flag anything that doesn’t meet the mark ✅

Collaborate with engineers and product managers to drive improvements

What We’re Looking For

• Background in backend engineering or DevOps
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes 🐳
• Familiarity with SQL and scripting (Python or Node.js preferred)
• Fast learner, comfortable testing across a wide tech stack
• Experience with SaaS or developer tools (QA experience is a plus, not a must)
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure ☁️
• Detail-oriented, curious, and user-first mindset 🧠
• Clear communicator in written English ✍️
• Comfortable working independently in a dynamic, remote-first team 🌍

Bonus : experience with workflow orchestration tools or open-source projects

Why Join Kestra?

Fully-remote position based in India

Direct impact on the product experience of 10,000+ organizations

Competitive salary for top talent

A culture of honest feedback, continuous learning, and real ownership

Join a global team building the future of orchestration

Our Hiring Process (2–3 Weeks)

1️⃣ Intro call with the hiring manager (30 min)

2️⃣ Async technical test (2 hours, take-home)

3️⃣ Team conversation with two future colleagues (30 min)

4️⃣ Final chat with one of our co-founders (30 min)

We keep it simple, fast, and respectful of your time ⏱