Software Test Engineer

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As a Software Test Engineer, you'll use your technical and teamwork skills, knowledge of testing and test automation, DevSecOps tools and methods to help deploy and improve our agentic AI solutions. You will align and integrate well with testers, developers, engineers, analysts, scrum masters, delivery managers and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories and author acceptance criteria for AI workflows; build API/E2E/async suites in CI/CD.
• Work closely with others to recognize the potential for any operational issues, assess risks, and help to resolve issues before the new software is complete.
• Review and contribute to test plans and test reports.
• Cooperate with other teams to understand full end-to-end use-cases to meet cross-functional requirements.
• Create test approaches, test scenarios, test cases and automated test scripts for new or changed software.
• Implement software tests for a multi-agent system, using either manual or automated approaches, as well as exploratory testing.
• Manage flaky tests and non-determinism strategies; seed/synthetic datasets and evaluation metrics.
• Run diverse sets of tests on new or changed software products to ensure they satisfy all specifications and requirements and evaluate results.
• Write detailed, high quality defect reports for any issues encountered during testing activities.
• Produce audit-ready test reports (traceability, reproducibility); align with AI-SDLC gates.
• Integrate evaluation results into release decisions and post-release monitoring.
• Collaborate with Reliability and Ops on rollout gates and incident playbooks.
• Provide feedback to team members and stakeholders regarding usability and functionality and provide understandable test reports.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or other relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in software testing on agile projects with a focus on test automation.
• Experience testing AI/LLM systems and output evaluation.
• Solid experience with test automation using Python, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with test design, set-up of test approaches and strategies for complex integrated systems.
• Good experience in testing web services and asynchronous API testing.
• Experience with integrating testing and test management tools such as qTest, Tosca and BrowserStack with CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid experience with relational databases and/or NoSQL.
• Good experience with testing in the cloud.
• Good to have a background with performance / load testing of service workflows.
• Interest in the newest testing and test automation trends and best practices.
• Good at analyzing problems and developing solutions.
• Proficient in both oral and written communication in English.
• Team player with innovative thinking.