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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.\nBacked 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.\nYoutube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup\nThe Quality Assurance Engineer Role.\nOur 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. 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Responsibilities include:\nOwn 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.\n\nBuild and maintain automated test suites (API, end-to-end, and regression) and integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines.\n\nFind, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and impact, and work with engineers through to resolution.\n\nTest the reliability and performance of real-time detection under realistic conditions - latency, load, varied audio and video quality, and different platforms and devices.\n\nHelp maintain the test data and media sets used to validate each release.\n\nPartner with the AI Research and Red Team to support model release validation and regression testing.\n\nHelp Customer Support and Solutions Engineering reproduce and triage customer-reported issues.\n\nContribute to QA standards, documentation, and release checklists across the engineering team.\n\nWho you are.\n3+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering, testing web applications and APIs in a fast-moving release environment.\n\nHands-on experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar, using frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.\n\nExperience testing REST APIs (e.g., Postman or code-based API tests) and working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).\n\nStrong attention to detail and a systematic approach to finding edge cases - you think about how things break, not just whether they work.\n\nClear written communication: your bug reports and test plans are easy for engineers to act on.\n\nExperience testing audio, video, or real-time communication products (WebRTC, telephony, conferencing). (nice to have)\n\nExperience testing ML-powered products or working with test datasets. (nice to have)\n\nExposure to performance or load testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter). 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