QA Automation Engineer

About Inventive.ai

At Inventive, our mission is to build intelligence that helps B2B sales teams win deals. Our first product is an agentic-AI platform for sales teams that them create winning proposals and RFP responses. About $1.4 Trillion worth of projects get allocated within the US alone and help the vendors in winning these deals with the help of our cutting AI agents.

Our founding team includes leaders & researchers from Google Brain, Stanford AI, UC Berkeley, and IIT, and have successfully exited startup. We graduated from Y-Combinator in the summer of 2023 and have raised a seed round from Valley's top investors.

The customer base and revenues are growing really fast and are looking for a rockstar QA Automation Engineer to join our small but rapidly growing team. If you are up for a solid challenge, you like to take ownership & you love working in a fast paced setting, then you have found your tribe.

Company & Founder Profiles

• Founding team:
  • Vishakh Hegde (Stanford AI, IIT, Author of book “3D Deep Learning”)
  • Gaurav Nemade (ex-Google Brain, Founding PM of Google LaMDA, IIT)
  • Dhiren Bhatia (UC Berkeley, 3x entrepreneur with successful exits)
• Media Coverage
  • Business Insider
  • Yahoo Finance
  • Ycombinator Launch announcement

About the Role

• Own quality from day one. Create detailed, thorough test plans and cases that cover happy paths, edge cases and failure modes.
• Automate the boring stuff. Design, build and maintain test-automation pipelines with open-source frameworks and scripting languages you love.
• Hunt bugs before users do. Reproduce, document and track defects, then verify fixes with solid regression suites.
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner with engineers, product managers and designers to define requirements and bake quality into every feature.
• Measure and improve. Establish QA metrics—defect density, time-to-resolution, test-coverage trends—and drive continuous improvement.
• Stay current. Evaluate new tools, frameworks and strategies so our test stack evolves along with the product.

What we’re looking for

• 6+ years in automation testing (preferably at a high-growth or a tier-1 company in B2B)
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong knowledge of Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, or similar tools.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, SQL, and performance testing basics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to think critically and debug complex issues.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and version control tools like Git.
• Experience with both white-box and black-box testing and a knack for writing crystal-clear test plans.
• Hands-on skill with automation tooling—and solid Python or shell-scripting chops.
• Performance, security or API testing experience is a bonus.

When You Apply?

• We are looking for top talent. So if you think you are exception, please add 2-3 lines in the message about why you are exceptional at your role and would be a great fit at Inventive. Thanks 🙂
• Also, note that our eng team is in California. So, please explicitly state if you would be okay to overlap at least 4 hours with Pacific Time Zone on weekdays.

4 rounds of interview

• 1st round: screening and/or assignment
• 3 rounds: technical