About The Company
Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company dedicated to helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Our patented multi-model approach provides robust protection against the latest generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Our API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers 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 collaborates with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes. Our innovative solutions have been recognized with awards such as the RSA Most Innovative Startup.
About The Role
We are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer (L3) to join our team either at our NYC headquarters or remotely within the U.S. Reporting directly to the Quality Assurance Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and quality of our products. Our customers depend on Reality Defender to make high-stakes decisions in real time—whether verifying the authenticity of a voice on a bank’s phone line or confirming the identity of a job interviewee. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for testing our APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations, as well as building automation frameworks that enable faster, more reliable releases. This is a full-time position within our Engineering team.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in software QA or quality engineering, with a focus on testing web applications and APIs in fast-paced release environments.
- Hands-on experience writing automated tests using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages, utilizing frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Experience testing REST APIs through tools like Postman or code-based API tests.
- Proficiency working with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to identifying edge cases and potential failure points.
- Excellent written communication skills for clear bug reporting and test documentation.
- Experience testing audio, video, or real-time communication products such as WebRTC, telephony, or conferencing systems.
- Nice to have: Experience testing machine learning-powered products or working with test datasets.
- Nice to have: Exposure to performance or load testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter.
Responsibilities
- Own test planning and execution for assigned product areas including APIs, SDKs, web applications, and real-time voice and video integrations from requirements analysis to release sign-off.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites covering API, end-to-end, and regression testing, integrating these into CI/CD pipelines.
- Identify, document, and track defects with detailed reproduction steps, severity assessments, and impact analysis, collaborating with engineering teams through resolution.
- Test the reliability and performance of real-time detection systems under realistic conditions such as latency, load, varied audio/video quality, and across multiple platforms and devices.
- Maintain and curate test data and media sets to validate each product release.
- Collaborate with AI Research and Red Team to support model release validation and regression testing efforts.
- Assist Customer Support and Solutions Engineering teams in reproducing and triaging customer-reported issues.
- Contribute to QA standards, documentation, and release checklists to improve quality processes across the engineering organization.
- Within 12 months, take ownership of QA for multiple product areas with minimal supervision, help establish and track quality metrics, improve QA tooling and practices, and mentor junior QA team members.
Benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage for dependents.
- Dental and vision insurance with 100% premium coverage for employees and dependents.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance plans fully covered for employees.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA), and 401(k) retirement plans.
- Equity compensation as part of total rewards.
- 20 days of paid time off per year.
- 12 weeks of parental leave.
- Learning and development budget to support continuous growth.
- Monthly wellness benefits.
- Annual company-sponsored offsite events.
- For NYC HQ employees: daily in-office lunch via UberEats, commuter benefits, remote Fridays, happy hours, and other local events.
- Competitive base salary range of $120,000 to $150,000, commensurate with experience and location, including equity.
Equal Opportunity
Reality Defender is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
