Senior QA Automation Engineer
Mesh · San Francisco, CA
$100,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior QA automation role focused on building and owning the quality engineering function at a crypto payments company. The work centers on designing end-to-end test frameworks (primarily with Playwright), covering UI, API, and Web3-specific flows such as wallet connections, transaction signing, and smart contract interactions, while integrating suites into CI/CD pipelines. Suits an experienced automation engineer with hands-on Web3 testing knowledge and comfort using AI-assisted development tools.
Senior level · 7+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 80–290
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,591 (middle half $99,460–$171,745). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'QA Automation Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so the title states no level; however, the 7+ years requirement and expectation to architect frameworks from scratch and own quality culture org-wide support a Senior classification.
Playwright and Cypress are listed together with 'and/or' phrasing under the requirements section; Playwright is treated as the primary with Cypress as an alternative. WebdriverIO, Selenium, and Puppeteer are explicitly called out as a 'plus' (nice to have).
The AI tools requirement (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) is framed with firm language ('Active, hands-on user') in the Who You Are section, treated as a hard gate; GitHub Copilot is used as the primary with the others as named alternatives.
Web3 wallet knowledge (MetaMask, WalletConnect), transaction signing, smart contracts, and RPC endpoints are listed under the required 'Web3 Knowledge' subsection. Testnet/mocking familiarity is explicitly called 'a strong plus' and is marked preferred.
The salary range of $100,000–$200,000 is stated for San Francisco and New York specifically; the posting notes compensation will be adjusted for other locations.
The role is hybrid (not fully remote) — SF, NY, and Bangalore hubs require ~40% in-office time. Bangalore is mentioned as a hub but the posting is headquartered in San Francisco and the salary is quoted in USD for US locations, so the primary location is treated as San Francisco.
The alternative occupation code 15-1252 is noted because the role involves architecting and building test frameworks from scratch, which has meaningful software development overlap, but the primary day-to-day work is QA automation.
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