Senior Software Development Engineer - Test - AI/Automation Testing
First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026.
About Us:
We turn customer challenges into growth opportunities. Material is a global strategy partner to the world's most recognizable brands and innovative companies. Our people around the globe thrive by helping organizations design and deliver rewarding customer experiences.
We use deep human insights, design innovation and data to create experiences powered by modern technology. Our approaches speed engagement and growth for the companies we work with and transform relationships between businesses and the people they serve.
Srijan, a Material company, is a renowned global digital engineering firm with a reputation for solving complex technology problems using their deep technology expertise and leveraging strategic partnerships with top-tier technology partners. Be a part of an Awesome Tribe.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a highly technical Senior SDET with Development and Test Engineering skills with AI, to work on our client's highly focused project.
This role moves beyond traditional automation, requiring the engineer to develop and test directly with AI, leverage AI-driven evaluation models to enhance test accuracy, and architect highly efficient, intelligent testing frameworks.
The ideal candidate must possess exceptional, hands-on technical proficiency across end-to-end Automation, API integration, Applied AI testing, and CI/CD DevOps pipelines.
You will act as a core contributor to our testing accelerators and serve as a technical vanguard for enterprise client deployments, ensuring maximum delivery quality and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities :
- Participate in software development activities as needed.
- Rebuild and deploy the company's proprietary automation framework within client environments.
- Leverage AI tools and methodologies to improve overall work efficiency.
- Develop and utilize AI accelerators for testing and automation.
- Perform standard Senior SDET and test automation duties.
- Develop and execute tests using AI and AI-driven evaluation models to enhance accuracy.
- Implement intelligent, highly efficient testing frameworks beyond traditional automation.
- Perform hands-on end-to-end (E2E) automation and API integration testing.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD DevOps pipelines.
- Contribute as a core developer to proprietary testing accelerators.
Skillset :
- Strong test strategy, risk-based testing, defect analysis and RCA.
- Ability to understand requirements and translate them into effective quality solutions.
- Strong collaboration with Developers, Product, BA and DevOps/SRE teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and contribute to shift-left / QE practices.
Mandatory Skills:
- QA- SDET: Automation Testing with AI (MCP, Agentic, AI Evaluation) (6 - 10 years)
- Python Development, Automation and Scripting
- AI/GenAI and LLM Application Development
- MCP and AI/Agent Development
- AI/Agent Evaluation - LLM, RAG, Agents, Prompts and Outputs (Promptfoo / DeepEval / RAGAS)
- Playwright / Selenium / Cypress
- API Testing and Automation - REST APIs / Postman / REST Assured
- Test Framework Design and Architecture
- Java / JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js / React, Docker / Kubernetes and cloud environments
- CI/CD - Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
- Basic SQL / Database Testing
- Git and Software Engineering Practices
Skills
Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Automation Testing, AI/ML Testing, Test Strategy, Defect/Bug Management Process, Integration Testing, Python, Playwright Testing, Selenium