Perplexity is looking for a Quality Assurance Tester to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. Your passion and diligence will be critical to ensure a high quality product.
You will work closely with product management, design, and engineering. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, eagerness to learn, and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Understand and analyze the existing product as well as new features
- Work with product management to set up proper QA testing processes
- Write clear, concise, and well-structured automated test scripts that cover a wide range of scenarios and edge cases
- Experience maintaining and debugging automated test scripts
- Detect bugs and UI issues on a variety of devices, browsers, and operating systems
- Detect performance problems by benchmarking against similar products
- Work with support to understand and reproduce common user issues
- Work with engineering to develop tools for automated testing
- Beta test new features and builds
Qualifications
- Diligent approach to testing and QA
- Organization and communication skills
- Understanding of AI products, including prompting
- Experience using monitoring tools such as Datadog and Sentry
- Ability to learn new software tools
- Understanding of user needs and situations
- 2+ years of industry experience
The cash compensation range for this role is $80,000 - $120,000.
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity is part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.