Senior QA Engineer
$150,000–$175,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Own quality across Cloaked's web, mobile, and API surfaces by designing test plans, executing exploratory testing, and building automated test suites. Integrate and maintain these tests within CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery while analyzing results to improve suite reliability. Collaborate with developers and product managers to understand features, contribute to living QA documentation, and conduct code reviews for test automation. Flag coverage gaps and propose solutions to improve quality signal, leveraging AI-assisted workflows for faster test generation and maintenance.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in QA or QA automation
- hands-on work building and maintaining manual and automated test suites
- Solid testing fundamentals: test design, test planning, defect management
- Experience testing across web, mobile and API
- Proficiency with Playwright, Selenium, and Appium
- Strong scripting/programming skills in languages commonly used in test automation (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java)
- Ability to write clean, well-structured, maintainable test code
- Self-starters who take ownership and proactively look for ways to improve things
- Strong communication skills, ability to manage expectations upwards and across teams as needed
- Comfort with chaos - priorities shift, context is incomplete, and you move anyway to find the correct solution
- A pragmatic bias toward shipping and iterating over perfecting in isolation
- A bias toward objective truth in your automation results, not just running green
- Curiosity about how things work under the hood and a desire to understand the product deeply
- A willingness to go down the rabbit hole on new tooling
- AI is changing how QA works and we'd rather hire someone chasing that than someone waiting for it to settle
- Collaborative mindset - you see QA as a partner to engineering, not a bottleneck
- Genuine care about quality as a product differentiator
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated use of AI to leverage your own workflow - generating and maintaining tests, writing docs, cutting down repetitive manual work
- Familiarity with Datadog, PostHog, Jira, and Google Workspace
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI)
- Hands-on API testing experience (Postman or equivalent)
- Exposure to security, privacy, or identity products
- Familiarity with performance or load testing tools (k6, Locust, JMeter)
- Experience with visual regression testing
- Experience testing with device farms, local or remote via services like SauceLabs or LambdaTest
- Background working in a startup or high-growth environment
- Experience setting test strategy or mentoring other QA engineers
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