Senior AI Test Engineer (Manual & Automation)

IAM Tools Engineering (ITE)
Location: Irving, TX (Las Colinas) | Chandler, AZ | Minneapolis, MN
Employment Type: Contract (Contingent), with potential for conversion

About the Role

The IAM Tools Engineering (ITE) team is seeking a Senior AI Test Engineer to lead quality engineering efforts for our AI-enabled, self-service identity and access management platform. In this role, you will define and execute testing strategies across complex, distributed systems, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability.

As a senior individual contributor, you will own end-to-end testing across UI and API layers, influence engineering best practices, and serve as a trusted quality partner to product and engineering teams. You will also help shape modern, scalable test automation solutions aligned with CI/CD delivery models and collaborate closely with globally distributed QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and execute the overall test strategy, including functional, integration, system, API, and UI testing, aligned with business, security, and AI quality objectives.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks for:
  • UI automation
  • API automation
• Perform hands-on automation development and targeted manual testing, particularly for complex, high-risk, or AI-driven scenarios.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to enable continuous quality validation.
• Validate AI-enabled capabilities, including:
  • Data quality and integrity
  • Model output accuracy, behavior, and consistency
  • (Optional) Conversational AI and chatbot testing
• Partner with product managers and software engineers early in the development lifecycle to ensure testability, clear acceptance criteria, and high-quality design.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and offshore QA engineers.
• Collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams to ensure consistent quality standards and execution.
• Proactively identify quality, reliability, and performance risks and drive mitigation before production release.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering or software testing for complex, web-based applications, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end quality outcomes as a senior individual contributor.
• Strong hands-on experience with manual testing and advanced test automation.
• Experience building and maintaining UI and API test automation.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or equivalent modern automation frameworks, with the ability to adopt Playwright quickly.
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver.
• Proficiency in C# or similar object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience applying BDD principles and writing scenarios using Gherkin.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of functional, integration, system, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Experience using Git-based version control systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across a matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with both onshore and offshore teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing, including load, stress, and endurance testing.
• Hands-on experience with JMeter, BlazeMeter, or similar performance testing tools.
• Experience with SpecFlow and/or Reqnroll.
• Familiarity with Micro Focus ALM Octane or similar test management tools.
• Experience executing tests at scale using platforms such as LambdaTest HyperExecute.
• Experience testing cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, including NLP and data-driven systems.
• Experience testing AI-powered chatbots or conversational interfaces.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development or testing tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot).

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

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