Senior QA Automation Engineer

Private Identity (“PrivateID”) builds privacy-preserving identity and age-assurance technology — verification that confirms who someone is, or that they meet an age requirement, without storing the underlying personal data.

Our software runs in production at consumer scale for some of the largest companies in the world, and we hold ourselves to the quality bar this demands:
Private Identity is ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, and a Kantara-certified NIST SP 800-63 credential service provider.

We’re a small, senior, international team, HQ in Washington DC, who work in the open, write things down, and ship software that works the first time.

You’ll be a Private Identity engineer embedded three days a week with a large customer’s in-store platform team in Woonsocket, RI, and working from home the other two. You are our quality gate inside the account: the person who makes sure every build we ship lands cleanly, gets tested thoroughly, and arrives with the clear write-up that keeps both teams in sync.

The work is mostly quality automation. Builds come to you from our engineering leads — Ubuntu workstation software from the Linux team, the companion Android app from our mobile lead — and you take each one through a short, focused manual pass and then into the Playwright suites you own and extend. Manual testing is deliberately limited;
writing and running automated tests is the heart of the job.

The rest is people. You’ll team closely with the customer’s engineers, learn how they use what we ship, and carry what you hear back to us early, in writing, with context.
If you like small teams, bring your own structure, and enjoy being the trusted link between two engineering groups, you’ll do very well here.

The customer’s team is small and you’ll know every one of them by name in your first week. You’ll be a daily presence in their space: pairing on reproductions, aligning on test coverage, and being the friendly, reliable face of Private Identity.

Our team is small too, and international: engineers across South America, India, Europe and the US
. We run on clear written updates, focused calls, and a lot of mutual trust. Three days a week you’re the in-person face of that team; two days a week you’re doing the same, but online. Both halves matter, and both should feel natural to you.

Test every build we ship — the core of the role

• Receive new builds from our engineering leads — Ubuntu workstation software and the companion Android app — install them on the test hardware, and run a focused manual smoke pass: install and upgrade, first launch, the core flows, the camera and video paths.
• Write and run Playwright tests (Type Script) that cover the UI and API surface of what we deliver, so every build gets the same repeatable coverage. This is where most of your time goes.
• Validate each release against requirements and acceptance criteria and give the team a clear, evidence-backed go / no-go before it reaches the customer.
• Triage failures, reproduce them, isolate root cause where you can, and write defect reports an engineer several time zones away can act on the moment they wake up.

• Work side by side with the customer’s engineering and QA team — align on test approach, coverage, standards and hand-off criteria, and become the person they come to first when something looks off.
• Keep the Private Identity team current from the customer site: what’s been tested, what’s outstanding and what’s ly, in writing, with enough context to act on.
• When the customer is working an operational issue in production
  , be part of the response — occasionally that means an early morning or a late evening, and it’s some of the most valued…