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Founded in 2016 to help transform the antiquated world of TV advertising through the intelligent application of AI and machine learning, Tatari helps some of the world’s fastest growing brands including Chime, Calm, Tecovas, Manscaped, Saatva, and Liquid I.V., reach their customers using linear and streaming TV ads. Our platform combines sophisticated media buying with proprietary analytics to turn TV advertising into an automated, digital-like experience, enabling businesses of any size to advertise on TV.\nThat approach has earned Tatari broad industry recognition, including being named Best CTV AdTech Platform in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, as well as honors from Digiday (Best Connected TV Platform), AdExchanger (Most Innovative TV Advertising Technology), and Business Insider (Hottest AdTech Companies). Tatari has also been recognized as the Best Place to Work by Inc. Magazine. Backed by an executive team of former founders and senior leaders from companies including Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, LiveRail, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Yahoo, Tatari continues to scale rapidly as TV advertising enters its next major era.\n\nOverview\nWe are looking for a Staff QA Engineer to join the Buying and Optimization team. In this role, you will work alongside engineering leadership to raise the bar for testing practices, set best practices, and scale our automation frameworks. You will have the opportunity to partner with product leaders to ensure correctness, reliability, and smooth user experience across Tatari’s buying platform and adjacent services.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain Tatari’s end-to-end (E2E) test automation framework in Playwright. Write a large share of the core framework code, shared utilities, and the hardest test suites yourself.\nSet the technical direction for test automation, including tooling, architecture, and testing patterns, and turn it into reference code and design docs others can follow.\nWrite and improve unit and integration tests across the stack (TypeScript/Jest, Python/pytest). Build the patterns, fixtures, and helpers that make good testing the easiest path for QA engineers and feature teams.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; fix flaky tests, speed up test runs, improve pipeline observability, and build reliable release gates.\nBuild tooling for data validation and backend verification, including SQL-based data integrity checks, API contract and response validation, and test data setup for sandbox and staging environments.\nDo hands-on exploratory testing on the highest-risk workflows, and review test plans and automation code written by other engineers.\nAct as the senior technical voice for QA. Give engineering and product leadership risk assessments and coverage data to inform release decisions.\nRaise the testing bar across engineering by mentoring, pairing, and writing best-practice docs. Take part in technical interviews for QA candidates.\nQualifications\n7+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or Software Engineer with a strong focus on automated testing and QA methodologies\nExpert in automated E2E testing (Playwright preferred, Cypress or Selenium considered).\nSolid TypeScript and Python skills (Jest, pytest, or similar), plus familiarity with React applications and bonus for client-side web applications. Proficient in SQL.\nA track record of building test automation frameworks for UIs, APIs, and microservices from scratch and scaling them as teams grew.\nProven ability to set testing strategy and standards for a team, and drive their adoption across multiple engineers and projects.\nStrong communicator, whether its presenting to engineering and product leadership or mentoring/coaching other engineers. \nStrategic mindset: able to prioritize testing investment against coverage and risk, and make the case for QA roadmap decisions.\nDetail focused, strong analytical skills, a knack for edge-case discovery, and a genuine commitment to engineering excellence.\nBenefits \nTotal compensation ($170,000 - 200,000/annually)\nEquity compensation\nHealth insurance coverage for you and your dependents\n401K, FSA, and commuter benefits\n$150 monthly spending account\n$1,000 annual continued education benefit\n$500 Newbie Productivity Perk\nUnlimited PTO and sick days\nMonthly Company Wellness Day Off\nSnacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office\nTeam building events \nHybrid RTO of 2 days per week in office. \nAt Tatari, we believe in the importance of cultivating teams with diverse backgrounds and offering equal opportunities to all. 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