QA Engineer
US$170,000 – US$200,000 / yr base salary
Posted 12 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff QA Engineer”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$200,000 / yr |
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Tatari is on a mission to revolutionize TV advertising. 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.
That 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.
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Overview**
We 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, 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.
- Set the technical direction for test automation, including tooling, architecture, and testing patterns, and turn it into reference code and design docs others can follow.
- Write 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.