Quality Assurance Engineer
Reality Defender · New York City · $120,000–$150,000 (stated in the posting)
Quality Assurance Engineer
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.