Sr. Sdet, Tvscientific

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · tvScientific

Senior QA Engineer for Pinterest's tvScientific CTV advertising platform, focusing on web and API testing. The role involves manual and automation testing of frontend, backend services, and APIs, collaborating with engineers and product managers to ensure reliability, security, and performance. The candidate will also leverage and critically evaluate AI tools in their workflow.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and drive quality for web platform features, spanning UI, APIs, and backend services
  2. Design and execute manual test cases and exploratory testing for complex web and API workflows
  3. Build and maintain automated test suites for:
  4. Collaborate with engineers during design, implementation, and code reviews to improve testability and catch issues early
  5. Analyze test failures, investigate root causes, and drive issues to resolution

Skills

Required

  • QA / Quality Engineering
  • web platforms and APIs
  • manual testing of complex, consumer-facing web applications
  • API tests using tools such as Postman, REST-assured, Supertest, or similar
  • web automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress)
  • HTTP, REST and API design principles
  • JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Agile/Scrum environments
  • debugging, analytical, and communication skills
  • AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow
  • critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work

Nice to have

  • testing large-scale, high-traffic web platforms
  • React or modern frontend frameworks
  • performance, load, or reliability testing for APIs and web applications
  • feature flags, experimentation platforms, or observability tools

What the JD emphasized

  • strong expertise in web and API testing
  • strong focus on web platforms and APIs
  • Proven hands-on experience with manual testing of complex, consumer-facing web applications
  • Strong experience building and maintaining API tests
  • Hands-on experience with web automation frameworks
  • Solid understanding of HTTP, REST and API design principles
  • Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language
  • Strong debugging, analytical, and communication skills
  • Strategic partnership with stakeholders / Cross-functional collaboration that is high-trust and high-velocity
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
  • Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work
  • High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables