Staff QA Engineer - Playwright E2E Testing Lead

Tatari; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

FSA

Commuter benefits

Monthly wellness day off

Snacks and catered lunches

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Tatari is hiring a Staff QA Engineer to elevate testing across its TV ad platform. You will design and implement the end-to-end test framework in Playwright, mentor engineers, and partner with product leadership to ensure reliability and quality across buying and optimization workflows.

We value strong automation, data validation, and a strategic QA mindset. The role is hybrid with in-office collaboration in San Francisco and nearby areas, offering robust compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or Software Engineer with a strong focus on automated testing and QA methodologies.
• Expert in automated E2E testing (Playwright preferred, Cypress or Selenium considered).
• Strong TypeScript and Python skills (Jest, pytest, or similar), plus familiarity with React applications and bonus for client-side web applications. Proficient in SQL.
• A track record of building test automation frameworks for UIs, APIs, and microservices from scratch and scaling them as teams grew.
• Proven ability to set testing strategy and standards for a team, and drive their adoption across multiple engineers and projects.
• Strong communicator, whether its presenting to engineering and product leadership or mentoring/coaching other engineers.
• Detail focused, strong analytical skills, a knack for edge-case discovery, and a genuine commitment to engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Tatari’s end-to-end (E2E) test automation framework in Playwright. Write a large share of the core framework code, shared utilities, and the hardest test suites yourself.
• Set the technical direction for test automation, including tooling, architecture, and testing patterns, and turn it into reference code and design docs others can follow.
• Write and improve unit and integration tests across the stack (TypeScript/Jest, Python/pytest). Build the patterns, fixtures, and helpers that make good testing the easiest path for QA engineers and feature teams.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; fix flaky tests, speed up test runs, improve pipeline observability, and build reliable release gates.
• Build tooling for data validation and backend verification, including SQL-based data integrity checks, API contract and response validation, and test data setup for sandbox and staging environments.
• Do hands-on exploratory testing on the highest-risk workflows, and review test plans and automation code written by other engineers.
• Act as the senior technical voice for QA. Give engineering and product leadership risk assessments and coverage data to inform release decisions.
• Raise the testing bar across engineering by mentoring, pairing, and writing best-practice docs. Take part in technical interviews for QA candidates.

Skills

Senior QA/Automation

End-to-end testing

Playwright expertise

TypeScript/Python

SQL proficiency

Test automation framework design

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Jest

pytest

CI/CD tooling

SQL tooling

Job description

Tatari is hiring a Staff QA Engineer to elevate testing across its TV ad platform. You will design and implement the end-to-end test framework in Playwright, mentor engineers, and partner with product leadership to ensure reliability and quality across buying and optimization workflows.

We value strong automation, data validation, and a strategic QA mindset. The role is hybrid with in-office collaboration in San Francisco and nearby areas, offering robust compensation and benefits.