Software Development Engineer in Test, Pinterest
tvScientific
$109.2-224.9k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$109.2-224.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- TvScientific is looking for a QA Engineer for its Web Platform with strong expertise in web and API testing
- Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience in QA / Quality Engineering, with a strong focus on web platforms and APIs
- Proven hands-on experience with manual testing of complex, consumer-facing web applications
- Strong experience building and maintaining API tests using tools such as Postman, REST-assured, Supertest, or similar
- Hands-on experience with web automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress)
- Solid understanding of HTTP, REST and API design principles
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript, TypeScript)
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Strong debugging, analytical, and communication skills
- Strategic partnership with stakeholders / Cross-functional collaboration that is high-trust and high-velocity
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
- Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
- High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables
Desirable
- Experience testing large-scale, high-traffic web platforms
- Familiarity with React or modern frontend frameworks
- Experience with performance, load, or reliability testing for APIs and web applications
- Exposure to feature flags, experimentation platforms, or observability tools
What the job involves
- TvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers
- We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes
- Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform
- Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business
- This role requires a balance of manual testing excellence and automation skills, with a focus on validating end-to-end user flows across frontend, backend services, and APIs
- You will partner closely with frontend engineers, backend engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure our web platform and APIs are reliable, secure, and performant
- Own and drive quality for web platform features, spanning UI, APIs, and backend services
- Design and execute manual test cases and exploratory testing for complex web and API workflows
- Conduct thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Build and maintain automated test suites for:
- Validate frontend–backend integration, data consistency, and error handling
- Perform API contract testing, schema validation, and negative/edge-case testing
- Collaborate with engineers during design, implementation, and code reviews to improve testability and catch issues early
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback
- Analyze test failures, investigate root causes, and drive issues to resolution
- Advocate for quality best practices, including shift-left testing, risk-based testing, and automation strategy
- Identify, document, and track software defects using bug tracking tools like Jira
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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