Altruist

Senior QA Engineer

Altruist · San Francisco, CA

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
73 days
Altruist's roles stay open a median of 74 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
10% of Altruist's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Altruist
high
77 stale, 0 reposted of 81 open
Hiring momentum
98 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

As a Senior QA Engineer at Altruist, you will be responsible for ensuring quality across the user-facing platform and internal systems, focusing on UI, API, and database layers. Your day-to-day tasks will include leading manual and automated testing efforts, developing testing strategies for core and AI-powered features, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to define test cases and clarify requirements. You will also build and maintain test automation frameworks and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer or Software Test Engineer, ideally within a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
  • Strong hands-on manual testing experience across UI and API
  • Experience building, maintaining, and executing test plans in partnership with cross-functional teams
  • Experience working in agile environments with a regular release cadence
  • Experience testing across the full stack, including browser-based applications, APIs, and backend systems
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining automated regression coverage

Nice to have

  • Experience testing AI-powered applications, including chatbots, assistants, or other LLM- or ML-based systems
  • Familiarity with brokerage or investment domain concepts such as margin, options, account types, and trade lifecycle

What you get

  • Competitive total compensation
  • Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO)
  • 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting
  • 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment
  • Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee
  • Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.)

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options aside from the one month work from anywhere policy
  • Salary range provided is specific to San Francisco, CA, which may not reflect other locations
  • The role involves both manual and automated testing, which may require a broad skill set
  • The company emphasizes a culture of kindness, brilliance, and grit, which may influence team dynamics

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Listed by Altruist on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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