Quality Assurance Engineer
Reality Defender
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Reality Defender Inc. is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure our APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations meet high reliability standards. You will develop automated tests in Python/JavaScript, validate REST APIs, and embed tests into CI/CD to speed releases while maintaining quality.
You will work either at our NYC HQ or remotely within the U.S., reporting to the Quality Assurance Lead. The role emphasizes thorough testing, careful edge-case analysis, and collaboration with AI
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering.
- Experience writing automated tests in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience testing REST APIs and using CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Own test planning and execution for APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations.
- Build and maintain automated test suites and integrate into CI/CD pipelines.
- Document defects with reproduction steps and work with engineers to resolve.
- Test reliability and performance of real-time detection under varied conditions.
- Help maintain test data and media sets used to validate releases.
- Collaborate with AI Research and Red Team for model release validation.
- Assist Customer Support in reproducing and triaging issues.
- Contribute to QA standards, docs, and release checklists.
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Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup
Our customers rely on Reality Defender to make high-stakes calls in real time — whether the voice on a bank's phone line or the face in a job interview is real. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll make sure what we ship holds up to that standard, testing our APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations, and building the automation that lets us release faster without breaking things. This is a full-time role based at our NYC headquarters or remote within the U.S., reporting to Quality Assurance Lead.
- Own test planning and execution for assigned product areas — APIs, SDKs, the web app, and real-time voice and video integrations — from requirements review through release sign-off.
- Build and maintain automated test suites (API, end-to-end, and regression) and integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines.
- Find, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and impact, and work with engineers through to resolution.
- Test the reliability and performance of real-time detection under realistic conditions — latency, load, varied audio and video quality, and different platforms and devices.
- Help maintain the test data and media sets used to validate each release.
- Partner with the AI Research and Red Team to support model release validation and regression testing.
- Help Customer Support and Solutions Engineering reproduce and triage customer-reported issues.
- Contribute to QA standards, documentation, and release checklists across the engineering team.
- 3+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering, testing web applications and APIs in a fast-moving release environment.
- Hands-on experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar, using frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Experience testing REST APIs (e.g., Postman or code-based API tests) and working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
- Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to finding edge cases — you think about how things break, not just whether they work.
- Clear written communication: your bug reports and test plans are easy for engineers to act on.
- Experience testing audio, video, or real-time communication products (WebRTC, telephony, conferencing). (nice to have)
- Experience testing ML-powered products or working with test datasets. (nice to have)
- Exposure to performance or load testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter). (nice to have)
- Own QA for multiple product areas with minimal oversight.
- Have helped establish quality metrics (escaped defects, coverage, release stability) that the team tracks and acts on.
- Be improving QA tooling and practices beyond your own areas.
- Be ready to take on broader scope and mentor newer QA team members.
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
- Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
- Commuter benefits
- Remote Fridays
- Happy Hours and other local events
Base salary range: $120k-$150k, based on experience and location. Includes equity.
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