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Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business. Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for six years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it.
The KPA Flex platform helps clients develop a comprehensive EHS program, leveraging technology to instill a culture of safety and maintain a productive workplace. The platform combines features that are tailored to the needs of our client’s business, including audits and inspections, incident management, flexible training, reporting, and insights. Position Description:A key initiative for this role is to lead the quality engineering strategy across all platforms (web, iOS, Android), evolve our QA practice from manual testing to automation-first, and establish scalable processes aligned with CI/CD and DevOps principles.As the QA Manager, you will lead a team of both manual and automation engineers. You will shape the performance, scalability, and reliability of our SaaS platform.
Responsibilities:
The KPA Flex platform helps clients develop a comprehensive EHS program, leveraging technology to instill a culture of safety and maintain a productive workplace. The platform combines features that are tailored to the needs of our client’s business, including audits and inspections, incident management, flexible training, reporting, and insights. Position Description:A key initiative for this role is to lead the quality engineering strategy across all platforms (web, iOS, Android), evolve our QA practice from manual testing to automation-first, and establish scalable processes aligned with CI/CD and DevOps principles.As the QA Manager, you will lead a team of both manual and automation engineers. You will shape the performance, scalability, and reliability of our SaaS platform.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Quality Leadership:
- Quality Strategy Development: Create and implement a comprehensive quality strategy and testing framework that aligns with business objectives and supports continuous integration/deployment practices across three product lines
- Cross-Functional Influence: Drive quality excellence across 5+ development teams (4-6 members each) through influence, collaboration, and strategic guidance rather than direct authority
- Quality Standards: Establish enterprise-wide quality standards, processes, and best practices that accommodate both legacy and modern technology stacks
- Integration Testing Oversight: Lead the strategy and execution of integration testing across products and feature areas to ensure seamless system interactions
- Drive Automation: Own the automation maturity roadmap to achieve high automated coverage and dramatically reduce manual regression cycles
Quality Management & Measurement:
- Metrics & KPIs: Define, implement, and monitor key quality metrics including defect density, automated test coverage, MTTR for defects, test effectiveness, and customer-reported defects
- Continuous Improvement: Identify quality improvement opportunities through data analysis and implement systematic approaches to enhance software quality
- Root Cause Analysis: Drive comprehensive root cause analysis of quality issues and establish preventive measures to avoid recurrence
Team Leadership and Collaboration:
- Direct Team Management: Lead a high-impact team of automation engineers and QA Analysts embedded within development teams, growing them into Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs)
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Engineering, DevOps/Platform, Product, Security and Customer Support teams to ensure quality integration across all software delivery processes
- Partner with DevOps: Integrate automated tests into CI pipelines and improve feedback loops with failure detection
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical direction in test design, automation patterns, and debugging
Process Innovation & Technology:
- Test Automation Strategy: Drive test automation initiatives and establish frameworks that support many daily releases
- Quality Tools & Processes: Evaluate, recommend, and implement quality assurance tools and processes that enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness
- Knowledge Management: Maintain comprehensive documentation of quality processes, standards, and lessons learned
- Set quality gates and pipeline standards enabling faster and safer deployments
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software quality management, with 3+ years in leadership roles
- Proven experience leading quality initiatives in scaling SaaS organizations
- Deep understanding of software testing methodologies, includ
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