SDET II, tvScientific

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$109,242–$224,910 / yr
Posted
3 days ago

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This role $167k
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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$198,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $167k versus about $163k for comparable roles.

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About Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.

Pinterest currently has 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$332,012 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · SDET II, tvScientific

Join Pinterest's tvScientific team as a QA Engineer for the Web Platform, where you will ensure reliability and security of our web platform and APIs through manual testing excellence and automation. Your daily tasks include designing test cases, executing exploratory tests, conducting regression testing, building automated suites to validate frontend-backend integration, and integrating these into CI/CD pipelines. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers during design phases to enhance testability and advocate for quality best practices. Ideal candidates have a degree in computer science or equivalent experience, hands-on manual testing skills, expertise in API testing tools like Postman, and proficiency in web automation frameworks such as Playwright. Knowledge of HTTP, REST principles, JavaScript, and Agile methodologies is essential, with additional benefits from familiarity with React, performance testing, and observability tools.

What you'll do

  • Own and drive quality for web platform features across UI, APIs, and backend services.
  • Design and execute manual test cases for complex web and API workflows.
  • Validate frontend-backend integration, data consistency, and error handling through testing.
  • Build automated test suites and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Analyze test failures to investigate root causes and drive issues to resolution.
  • Advocate for quality best practices including shift-left testing and risk-based testing.

What we're looking for

  • Strong expertise in web and API testing with manual and automation skills.
  • Experience designing and executing test cases for complex web applications.
  • Proficiency in building automated test suites using tools like Playwright or Cypress.
  • Solid understanding of HTTP, REST principles, and API design.
  • Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Strong debugging, analytical, and communication skills.

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