Staff QA Engineer

About This Role

This Staff QA Engineer role involves working with the Buying and Optimization team to enhance testing practices, establish best practices, and scale automation frameworks. You will collaborate with product leaders to ensure the correctness, reliability, and smooth user experience of Tatari's buying platform and related 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
• Set the technical direction for test automation, including tooling, architecture, and testing patterns, and translate it into reference code and design documents for others to follow
• Write and improve unit and integration tests across the stack (Type Script/Jest, Python/pytest)
• Build the patterns, fixtures, and helpers that make good testing the easiest path for QA engineers and feature teams
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; fix flaky tests, speed up test runs, improve pipeline observability, and build reliable release gates
• Build 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
• Perform hands-on exploratory testing on the highest-risk workflows, and review test plans and automation code written by other engineers
• Act as the senior technical voice for QA
• Provide engineering and product leadership with risk assessments and coverage data to inform release decisions
• Raise the testing bar across engineering by mentoring, pairing, and writing best-practice documents
• Participate in technical interviews for QA candidates

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or Software Engineer with a strong focus on automated testing and QA methodologies
• Expert in automated E2E testing (Playwright preferred, Cypress or Selenium considered)
• Solid Type Script and Python skills (Jest, pytest, or similar), plus familiarity with React applications and bonus for client-side web applications
• Proficient in SQL
• A track record of building test automation frameworks for UIs, APIs, and microservices from scratch and scaling them as teams grew
• Proven ability to set testing strategy and standards for a team, and drive their adoption across multiple engineers and projects
• Strong communicator, whether it's presenting to engineering and product leadership or mentoring junior engineers

About the Company

Tatari was founded in 2016 with a mission to revolutionize TV advertising through the intelligent application of AI and machine learning. The company helps fast-growing brands like Chime, Calm, and Manscaped reach customers using linear and streaming TV ads. Its platform combines sophisticated media buying with proprietary analytics to automate TV advertising, earning industry recognition including Best CTV AdTech Platform in the Mar Tech Breakthrough Awards. Tatari is backed by an executive team of former founders and senior leaders from companies including Shazam, True Car, and Amazon, and is rapidly scaling as TV advertising evolves.