QA Lead , Reality Defender

$150-180k

+ equity

Cypress

Selenium

REST API

Playwright

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

Be an early applicant

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Be an early applicant

$150-180k

+ equity

Cypress

Selenium

REST API

Playwright

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Company mission

To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

This role requires both hands-on technical expertise and leadership capabilities to help build and scale a world-class QA function
6+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with 2+ years in a lead or senior role
Strong experience testing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-based applications
Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, pytest, or similar)
Experience testing RESTful APIs and backend systems
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration
Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills

What the job involves

We are seeking an experienced QA Lead to define and drive the quality strategy across our platform, ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of mission-critical systems
This role will lead quality assurance efforts across backend services, frontend applications, and machine learning–powered detection systems
The QA Lead will work closely with engineering, ML, product, and DevOps teams to implement scalable testing processes, automation frameworks, and quality standards
Define and implement the overall QA strategy, processes, and standards across the organization
Lead test planning, execution, and release validation for platform features, APIs, and AI/ML-powered detection systems
Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure quality is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle
Identify, track, and drive resolution of defects, performance issues, and reliability risks
Establish and monitor quality metrics, test coverage, and release readiness criteria
Mentor and support QA engineers while helping scale the QA function as the company grows
Contribute to continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release processes

Our take

Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.

Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.

Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this very early-stage startup.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Company HQ

Manhattan, New York, NY

Leadership

Gaurav Bharaj

(Co-Founder)

Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.

Ali Shahriyari

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.

Ben Colman

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.

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