Senior QA Engineer, WellSaid Labs
$95-140k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI text-to-speech technology
Job no longer available
AI text-to-speech technology
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$95-140k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with AI voice.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance and testing
- Experience leading a team of quality engineers
- Strong understanding of software development life cycle and testing methodologies
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
Desirable
- Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience with AI technologies
- be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
- pass a pre-employment background check
What the job involves
- As Senior Quality Engineer at WellSaid Labs, you'll be working on large-scale projects to continuously improve the quality and performance of our application, platform, core services, and artificial intelligence (AI) software systems. This includes developing and implementing quality assurance processes, testing strategies, and tools to ensure that our products and solutions meet customer requirements and industry standards
- As our first QA hire, you will be responsible for establishing processes and tools to enable the entire engineering team to improve quality and automate regression testing. You will also establish a vision for QA at WellSaid Labs to ensure the quality and reliability of all of our software solutions, gain alignment on that vision with the Engineering team, then develop a roadmap to realize the vision
- Work with development teams to ensure the quality of software deployments
- Develop and maintain automated testing systems
- Design and implement test plans for larger features and releases
- Lead development and implementation of software testing strategies, processes/procedures and tools
- Collaborate with other teams to build predictable software quality into every release
- Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve software defects
- Collaborate with PMs to define acceptance criteria
- Ensure that the software meets customer requirements and industry standards
- Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers on improving software quality and automated testing
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance
- Communicate regularly with senior management on the status of quality assurance efforts and any issues that arise
- Collaborate on feature delivery plans
- Code reviews
- Infrastructure improvements
- Identify novel ways to empower the engineering team to automate quality
Application process
- An introductory interview with the hiring manager (50 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team
- A technical screen, either as a live interview via Karat or as a take-home assessment
- An Interview loop with 3-4 interviews (1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with
Our take
WellSaid Labs offers creative teams a real time text-to-speech engine that leverages AI to produce natural-sounding voice overs and clips, all based on the voices of real people.
The most common rebuttal to this kind of technology is how it can be used with malicious intent – deepfakes being the most pertinent concern. This is precisely why WellSaid Labs has no current intention to bring its product to a consumer market – a wise decision. It’s also worth noting that all its voice samples are provided with consent of the original talent.
Provided the pricing point is right, there’s an obvious attraction to being able to quickly create audio content at an enterprise level. And the fact that the startups first major funding round was oversubscribed indicates that investors see this attraction too. It'll be an interesting company to keep an eye on in coming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Company HQ
Northlake, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Michael Petrochuk
(Founder & CTO)Previously founded AI fashion advice app Wardrobe.Tips and location based social network Chirpp. Former Developer and Engineer at vCita and Stylize, also interning at Google and Uber.
Brian Cook
(CEO)Founder of Incredible Capital. Previously co-founded and served as the CEO at Hyperfish, Nintex, and OBS.
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