# Member of Technical Staff, QA

**Company:** [Vapi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vapi)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, Cypress, Selenium, Ai Coding Agents, APIs, Llm Evals, Distributed Systems, E2E Testing
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> Owns end-to-end QA for Vapi's voice AI platform, building Playwright e2e tests, testing integrations (LLMs, STT, TTS, telephony), filing bugs, and partnering with engineers on releases. Requires 5+ years QA/SDET experience, TypeScript/JavaScript proficiency, and AI coding tools usage.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### First 30 Days
- Build and deploy real assistants on Vapi, run live calls and simulations across our main provider integrations (LLMs, STT, TTS, telephony), and break the product in at least a few interesting ways.
- Get up and running in our existing e2e test framework and ship your first **Playwright** tests against the dashboard.
- File bugs that engineers fix, and develop a working point of view on where our coverage is weakest.

### By 60 Days
- Own release testing for at least one major product area (assistant builder, simulations, monitoring, knowledge base, or versioning), and earn engineers' trust to gate it.
- Meaningfully improve automated coverage in your area.
- Partner with engineers on test strategy for new features before they ship.
- Use **AI coding agents** to multiply your throughput on test scenarios and regression coverage.

### By 90 Days
- Operate as a full peer to engineers on the team, owning QA across the product surface without handholding.
- Extend our testing practices and contribute patterns the rest of the team picks up.
- Be involved in new features from the start, with the automation suite meaningfully larger on your watch.

## Who You Are

### Must-Haves
- **5+ years** in QA, SDET, Test Engineering, or product engineering with a strong testing focus.
- Hands-on with at least one modern e2e framework — **Playwright** preferred; **Cypress**, **Selenium**, or equivalent are fine.
- Comfortable reading and writing **TypeScript** / **JavaScript** well enough to extend our test suite and file bugs with a hypothesis attached.
- Track record testing complex, distributed systems with real failure modes — **APIs**, integrations, real-time behavior, anything where "correct" isn't a fixed string.
- Daily use of **AI coding agents** (**Claude Code**, **Cursor**, or similar) with opinions about where they help and where they don't.

### Nice-to-Haves
- Background in voice AI, conversational AI, **LLM** applications, or telephony.
- Experience with **LLM evals** or testing non-deterministic systems.
- Worked on a developer-facing product — **APIs**, **SDKs**, dashboards — where the audience is technical.

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