Senior AI Test Engineer (contract)

Description

Title: Senior AI Test Engineer

Location: Irving, TX

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors. Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the overall test strategy, including functional, integration, API, UI testing, ensuring alignment with business, security, and AI quality goals.
  

  • Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable test automation frameworks supporting:
  • UI test automation
  • API test automation
  • Serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for hands on automation and targeted manual testing, particularly for complex or high-risk scenarios.
  • Integrate automated functional into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
  • Validate AI driven capabilities, including:
  • Data quality and integrity
  • Model output behavior and consistency
  • Optional testing of AI based chatbots and conversational interfaces
  • Collaborate with developers and product owners early in the lifecycle to ensure testability and well-defined acceptance criteria.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and offshore QA engineers.
  • Collaborate effectively with offshore teams, ensuring consistent quality standards and execution.
  • Proactively identify quality and performance risks and drive mitigation prior to production release.

Key Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

  • Software testing experience with complex, web-based applications.
  • Proven experience operating as a senior individual contributor, owning quality outcomes end to end.
  • Strong hands-on experience with manual testing and advanced test automation.
  • Demonstrated expertise in: UI test automation, API test automation
  • Hands on experience with Playwright for UI and/or API automation (preferred) or equivalent modern frameworks with the ability to adopt Playwright quickly.
  • Experience with Selenium WebDriver.
  • Strong programming skills in C#
  • Experience with BDD principles and writing scenarios using Gherkin.
  • Experience integrating automated functional into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Deep understanding of: Functional, integration, system testing, End to end testing, non functional testing
  • Strong experience with Git based version control.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across a matrixed organization.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.
  
  Preferred / Nice to Have Experience
  

  • Experience with performance testing, including: Load, stress, and endurance testing
  • Performance analysis and tuning collaboration with engineering teams
  • Experience using JMeter and BlazeMeter for scalable, cloud based performance execution.
  • Experience with SpecFlow and/or Reqnroll.
  • Familiarity with Micro Focus ALM Octane for test management.
  • Experience executing tests at scale using Lambda Test HyperExecute.
  • Experience testing cloud native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, including NLP and data driven systems.
  • Experience testing AI based chatbots or conversational AI platforms.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot or similar AI assisted coding/testing tools.