Role: Quality Automation Engineer location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA (3 to 4 Days onsite/week) (Open for remote as well) Duration: 12 months MOI: Video along with coding Any Visa Required Qualification: ~ Bachel…
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QA Engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA
QA engineers make sure software works before users find out it does not. The role blends manual exploratory testing with automated test suites and close collaboration with developers.
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$37–$98/hr
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$133k
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games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices. As a Staff QA Engineer in the Dolby Cinema QA group, you will provide senior test leadership for next-gener…
$220k - $300k
on our wind and temperature performance, the maximum payload, and the total energy available. As the leader for Powertrain Test Engineering, you will be responsible for the deep characterization of powertrain components…
$120k - $135k
50 million from some of the world's best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of…
Job Description Job Description Peak Energy Job Title: Systems Integration and Test Engineering Intern Location: Burlingame, CA Department: ESS Engineering Reports To: Senior Manager, Test Engineering Position Type: Inte…
$100k - $200k
reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world.... ...era of the global economy. Join us! Overview We are seeking a QA Automati…
$139k - $170k
At Ouster, we build sensors and tools for engineers, roboticists, and researchers, so they can make the world safer and more efficient. We've transformed LIDAR from an analog device with thousands of components to an ele…
$150k - $200k
first commercially available AI Co-Scientist. It is a discovery engine that transforms messy biological data into insights in minutes. Scientists... ...to patient outcomes. ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring a QA Engineer, Sci…
Job Description Job Description Overview Seeking a Mobile Test Automation Engineer with Life Sciences or Healthcare experience to support automated testing of mobile applications in FDA-regulated environments. The role i…
$138k - $172k
multiple teams to help our partners be successful Set direction and build consensus to drive long-term positive impact on the engineering ecosystem Evangelize and drive adoption of software development best practices in…
Primary.Health is the engine behind your COVID-19 testing and vaccination programs. Our web-based platform provides government agencies... ...state databases, easing the reporting process. JOB TITLE: QA Engineer JOB TYPE…
$180k - $300k
knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate... ...on quality goals. Continuous Improvement : Stay updated on QA methodologies…
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What qa engineers earn in San Francisco
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $37–$54 | $77k–$112k |
| Mid level | $54–$74 | $112k–$154k |
| Senior | $71–$98 | $147k–$203k |
Adjusted for the San Francisco market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Test planning and case designAutomation (Selenium, Playwright)API testing (Postman)A scripting language (Python, JS)Bug reporting and triageSQL for data verificationCI integration of test suitesExploratory testingAttention to detail
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
How would you test a login form?
Go beyond happy path: invalid inputs, security cases, lockouts, accessibility, and different devices. Structure your answer into categories so it sounds systematic.
What do you automate, and what do you test manually?
Automate the repeatable and regression-prone; explore manually where human judgment finds new bugs. Showing you know automation has a maintenance cost is the senior move.
Walk me through a great bug report you have written.
Reproduction steps, expected versus actual, environment, evidence, and severity. Emphasize that a good report saves a developer an hour.
A developer says your bug is not a bug. What do you do?
Show that you argue from the user's perspective and the spec, escalate with data if needed, and keep the relationship collaborative.
How do you decide what to test when time is short before a release?
Risk-based prioritization: critical paths, recent changes, and areas with bug history. Naming the tradeoff explicitly is what they want to hear.
How do you keep an automated test suite from becoming flaky?
Talk about stable selectors, proper waits, isolated test data, and quarantining flaky tests instead of ignoring red builds.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For qa engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Quantify your impact in defects: escape rate reduced, critical bugs caught pre-release, regression time cut.
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Name your automation stack and the size of suites you built or maintained, such as number of tests or coverage of critical flows.
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Show progression from manual to automation if that is your path — it is the expected trajectory and worth making explicit.
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Mention the domains you tested (payments, healthcare, mobile) since domain risk knowledge transfers.
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Include CI/CD integration work; a suite that runs on every pull request is worth more than one run by hand.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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QA Analyst
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QA Engineer
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Senior QA Engineer
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QA Lead
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Head of Quality
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