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Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Cloaked in New York, NY

ExperiencedHybridFull-timeNew York, NY$110k–$160k/yr

Skills

playwrightappiumpostmanpythonjavascripttypescriptjavagithub actionsjenkinscircleci

Job Description

Cloaked is a privacy startup dedicated to rebuilding consumer trust in how personal data is used. Our vision is to create an internet that serves the needs of its users, first and foremost—with individual privacy and opt-in at the core. Our product is a virtual “cloak” that you use as you visit any website — Facebook, Amazon, etc. It lets you choose to share all, some, or none of your private information based on your personal preference.

We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer who can build and maintain automated test suites across Cloaked's web, mobile, and API products. You'll work hands-on daily to expand automation coverage, improve test reliability, and integrate quality checks into the development lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone who loves writing clean, maintainable test code and wants meaningful ownership in a growing automation practice.

What will you do?

- Write, maintain, and expand automated test suites covering functional, regression, integration, and API testing
- Build and improve test automation frameworks and utilities alongside other QA Engineers and the QA Manager
- Integrate and maintain automated tests within CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
- Analyze test results, identify flaky tests, and improve overall test suite reliability, while still being truthful in the results
- Collaborate with developers and product managers to understand features and identify automation opportunities
- Contribute to automation standards, coding guidelines, and documentation
- Test across web, mobile, and API layers with an eye toward consistent coverage
- Participate in code reviews for test automation code and provide constructive feedback
- Flag gaps in test coverage and propose solutions to improve quality signal

What skills and experiences will help you?

- Solid experience in QA automation engineering, with hands-on work building and maintaining automated test suites
- Proficiency with Playwright for web test automation
- Experience with Appium for mobile test automation
- Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing
- Strong scripting/programming skills in languages commonly used in test automation (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java)
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI)
- Understanding of software testing fundamentals including test design, test planning, and defect management
- Ability to write clean, well-structured, and maintainable test code

What's nice to have?

- Experience testing across both web and mobile platforms
- Exposure to security, privacy, or identity products
- Familiarity with performance or load testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter)
- Experience with visual regression testing
- Background working in a startup or high-growth environment
- Experience or familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
- Experience testing with Device Farms, either local or remote through services like BrowserStack

What do we like?

- Self-starters who take ownership of their work and proactively look for ways to improve things
- A bias toward shipping and iterating over perfecting in isolation
- A bias towards objective truth in your automation results, not just "running green"
- Curiosity about how things work under the hood and a desire to understand the product deeply
- Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift
- Collaborative mindset — you see QA as a partner to engineering, not a bottleneck
- Genuine care about quality as a product differentiator

What We Offer

Cloaked is a well-funded Series A startup based out of NYC.

Although we are a distributed team, the NYC team operates with a hybrid model. The office building is home to several amenities, including a gourmet cafe, cocktail bar, and a rooftop work area.

We have a fully built out kitchen packed with drinks and snacks. The Cloaked team has diverse interests and so we frequently embark on team outings and go out for socials!

Compensation and Benefits

We offer above market rate pay and equity based off of the market's best commercially available data. Your compensation will be a combination of salary, bonus and equity.

Benefits

Cloaked employees have 401K, as well as top of the line Health, Dental, and Vision benefits.

We offer flexible work arrangements and the ability to work remotely as needed. Cloaked provides a home office stipend in addition to a new company laptop (and other tech depending on the role).

Perks

🌴Competitive PTO: We encourage employees to take a minimum # of vacation per quarter. We see PTO as a preventative burnout measure and are committed to changing the industry standard.

🤸Monthly health stipend: Used for any kind of physical, mental or emotional care you’d like to take for yourself, be it a gym membership, a meditation app, or time with a personal trainer.

🥗 Late Night Meals: We understand that sometimes work can get in the way of meal prep. In response to that, we offer employees a monthly meal stipend to be used when they don't have time to get a home cooked meal going!

🧠 Professional Growth: Opportunities for career development and personal growth are provided to all employees who seek to further their knowledge and capabilities through an unlimited professional development fund. Additionally team members are encouraged to regularly attend conferences and industry events.

We are really excited about having you join our mission-driven team and help us build the future of online privacy!