QA Automation Engineer

All roles San Francisco, CA QA Automation Engineer San Francisco, CAFull-timeMid-levelOn-site Zof AI is hiring for this role in San Francisco, CA. This is a full-time opportunity for candidates who want to contribute directly to the development of ambitious AI products in a high-performance environment. Must work with AI agents daily to write, maintain, and scale test coverage. Compensation Competitive salary Plus meaningful equity Apply for this role About This Role Zof AI is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to bring real test-engineering craft to the agent fleets that find, reproduce, and remediate defects in customer codebases. This role owns the practice our product automates: framework design, flake elimination, coverage strategy, and CI gates that engineering teams actually trust. If you have worked as an SDET, Test Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer, or Software Engineer in Test, this is that discipline at Zof AI. The ideal candidate has built suites that held up against messy real codebases and wants to encode that judgment into agents doing the same work at scale. Responsibilities Design and maintain end-to-end test frameworks in Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. Build unit and integration coverage using pytest, Jest, and similar tooling. Hunt down and eliminate flaky tests so the suite stays trustworthy. Own coverage strategy across the unit, integration, and end-to-end layers. Wire suites into CI with gates that block real defects before release. Reproduce reported bugs as tight, deterministic failing tests. Teach our agent fleets how a strong test engineer reasons and works. Partner with engineering and product to raise the bar on what ships. Requirements Experience writing automated tests for production software. Working knowledge of a browser automation framework such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. Ability to write clean code in a language like Python, TypeScript, or Java. Understanding of CI pipelines and how tests gate a release. Instinct for the difference between a real failure and a flaky one. Comfort reading unfamiliar code well enough to test it. Clear written and verbal communication. Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment. Nice to have Experience building test infrastructure, fixtures, or test data tooling. Experience testing APIs, mobile apps, or performance and load scenarios. Experience defining quality metrics and reporting them to engineering leadership. Experience with eval or benchmark harnesses for AI systems. QA AutomationTest EngineeringPlaywrightCISDET What we provide in San Francisco MacBook Pro Premium AI development tools Cursor Ultra Claude Code Ultra OpenAI Codex Max or equivalent advanced AI tooling Access to a high-performance AI product environment Close collaboration with leadership, engineering, and customers Opportunity to work in the San Francisco AI ecosystem Wellness and productivity support where applicable Competitive startup environment High ownership Direct product impact Benefits may depend on role and final offer terms. Apply Apply for QA Automation Engineer This application is for the QA Automation Engineer role in San Francisco, CA. Please complete every required field. 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(optional) Education (optional) Anything else you would like us to know? (optional) 0/3000 6 Final confirmation I understand this is a location-based role and have reviewed the location requirements.* I confirm that the information I have provided is accurate.* By submitting, you agree that Zof AI may store and review your application for hiring purposes. Related roles Accra, GhanaFull-timeMid-levelOn-site QA Automation Engineer Zof AI is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to bring real test-engineering craft to the agent fleets that find, reproduce, and remediate defects in customer codebases. This role owns the practice our product automates: framework design, flake elimination, coverage strategy, and CI gates that engineering teams actually trust. If you have worked as an SDET, Test Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer, or Software Engineer in Test, this is that discipline at Zof AI. The ideal candidate has built suites that held up against messy real codebases and wants to encode that judgment into agents doing the same work at scale. GHS 6,000-12,000 / month QA AutomationTest EngineeringPlaywrightCISDET View roleApply