Browser QA Engineer

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • Quality Assurance • $60,000 PA - $90,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced QA Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing search and internet interaction. The role involves building and expanding the Perplexity Android app, testing the desktop and Android app, working closely with product and design teams, collaborating with development teams, and working on deployment processes. The ideal candidate will have strong QA skills, interest in search, and a passion for delivering great UX and quality UI. The role requires collaboration with different teams to improve the end-to-end experience. The company has seen tremendous growth and has raised significant funding.

Must have:

4+ years of industry experience in QA
Expertise in manual testing
Expertise in Autotest frameworks
Understanding of performance testing
Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving team
A passion for shipping

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Job Details

Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced QA Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for building and expanding the Perplexity Android app.

The ideal candidate should have strong QA skills, an interest in search and large language models, and a passion for delivering a great UX backed by a quality UI.

Responsibilities

Testing a performant native Desktop and Android app that millions of users around the world enjoy using.
Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile/desktop experiences.
Work closely with design teams to help to design fast and intuitive UI/UX.
Collaborate with desktop and mobile dev teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience.
Work with infrastructure, backend and frontend teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring.

Requirements

4+ years industry experience
Expertise in Hand Testing
Expertise in Autotest frameworks
Understands how to test performance and speed issues
Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership
A passion for shipping

Our cash compensation range for this role is $60,000 - $90,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.

Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.