QA Engineer (12-months Contract)

About AppLovin

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin, visit: www.applovin.com.

To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

Fortune recognizes AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, and the company has been a Certified Great Place to Work for the last four years (2021-2024). Check out the rest of our awards HERE.

Role

As a QA Engineer for this venture, you will safeguard the quality and reliability of our next generation social platform. You will design and implement comprehensive testing strategies spanning both manual validation and automated frameworks to ensure seamless media delivery, real time social interactions, and a flawless user experience. Your day will involve rapidly validating MVPs for our Creator and Content Operation platforms, moving fast without breaking the user experience. You will drive the quality direction of our platform by collaborating closely with product managers, backend engineers, and AI teams to translate ambitious ideas into stable, production-ready features.

Impact You'll Make

• Validate Creator & Ops Platforms: Establish rigorous testing workflows and test plans for our high-velocity creator ecosystem and internal content operation tools.
• Build Automation Frameworks: Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test suites across APIs and user interfaces to accelerate our regression testing.
• Ensure End to End Quality: Perform deep functional, integration, and performance testing on core services supporting media processing, high concurrency content delivery, and real-time social features.
• Drive Quality at Speed: Partner closely with developers and product managers to catch bugs early in the development lifecycle, enabling rapid MVP releases without sacrificing platform stability.
• Guard Platform Integrity & UX: Validate content ecosystem safety mechanisms, notification systems, and real-time engagement features including messaging and live interactions to guarantee an intuitive, high-quality user experience.
• Optimize QA Infrastructure: Continually improve our testing tools, environments, and CI/CD integration to enhance overall engineering efficiency.

Who You Are

• 1+ years of QA engineering experience, with a track record of testing applications and building automated test suites in a fast-paced environment.
• Automation Savvy: Proficiency in writing automated test scripts using at least one major language such as Python, Java, or JavaScript and modern testing frameworks like Selenium, Appium, or Playwright.
• Fast & Adaptable: You thrive in a startup setting and are comfortable balancing comprehensive test coverage with the reality of high-velocity speed-to-market product cycles.
• Product & UX Mindset: You care deeply about the end-to-end user experience and ensure features work intuitively for creators and operations teams alike.
• Technical Deep Dive: Strong experience with API testing using Postman or RestAssured, web and mobile inspection, log analysis, and database verification to isolate and root cause defects.
• Collaborative & Scrappy: Proven ability to own the QA lifecycle from design to release, working comfortably alongside backend and product teams in an agile environment.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience testing mobile applications for iOS and Android and managing mobile release pipelines.
• Familiarity with performance, load, and scalability testing tools like JMeter or Locust.
• Knowledge of video streaming protocols, media processing pipelines, or WebSockets and real-time communication.
• Experience integrating automated tests directly into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

Why Join This Venture

This is a startup within a proven industry leader. You'll get the ideal combination of a startup's autonomy, impact, and velocity with the resources, stability, and expertise of AppLovin. As a QA engineer, you'll have unparalleled ownership over our testing architecture and the opportunity to build quality processes from the ground up for systems that will serve millions of users. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies while solving unique challenges in social networking and AI-driven content discovery. Join our small, mission-driven team and help create the next growth story from scratch