Quality Assurance Engineer
Reality Defender · New York City
USD 120,000 to 150,000 per year
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER (L3)
NYC HQ or Remote (U.S.) | Full-time | Engineering | Reports to: Quality Assurance Lead
WHO WE ARE.
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
THE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER ROLE.
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. Responsibilities include:
- 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.
WHO YOU ARE.
- 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)
WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL…
- 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.
WHAT WE OFFER.
Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:
- 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
For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:
- 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.