Founding QA Engineer (AI Startup)

Job Description

About Us

We’re an AI startup building automated sales and marketing for cash-based medical clinics. Our customers are majority women-owned businesses and rely on us to deliver intelligent, reliable AI experiences that drive revenue and growth and serve their customers. As we grow, we’re looking for a Founding QA Engineer to take full ownership of testing, release quality, and reliability across our product.

The Role

As our Founding QA Engineer, you’ll build and own the systems that ensure our AI agents, integrations, and platform work flawlessly for every customer. You’ll design and execute test plans, write automation and regression tests, manage the bug backlog, and gate our daily release cycle. This is a hands-on role that blends technical testing, process creation, and proactive quality management - perfect for someone who wants to define QA from the ground up at a fast-moving AI startup.

What You’ll Do

• Own release testing and quality gates - approving daily releases and ensuring that new builds meet reliability and functional standards.
• Develop and maintain test automation for key features and integrations using tools like Playwright or Cypress.
• Manually test major new features and customer flows, creating detailed checklists and regression suites.
• Proactively identify and reproduce AI agent failures, including testing phone and text conversations with customers’ AI agents to ensure natural, accurate, and compliant interactions. Log and track issues to resolution.
• Own the bug backlog - prioritize, communicate with engineering, and ensure critical issues are resolved before release.
• Collaborate with support to reproduce customer issues and document reproducibility steps; act as backup for the support team during spikes or outages.
• Write and maintain test plans and release checklists for new features and major releases.
• Continuously improve QA processes - implement structure, automation coverage, and visibility into product quality metrics.

What We’re Looking For

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