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We are looking for someone who understands common testing heuristics, can identify meaningful product risks, and knows how to test and verify software beyond the obvious happy paths. You will use agentic tools to apply those skills faster and at greater scale without compromising testing depth or judgment. \nYou will design and maintain automated test suite, improve our quality engineering frameworks and delivery pipelines, and expand the use of AI agents within our QA processes. This includes creating, configuring and using agentic tools to accelerate test creation, analysis, failure triage, coverage assessment, and other recurring quality workflows. \nAs our product and software development practices become increasingly AI-native, you will also contribute to how we validate AI-powered features. Having direct experience testing AI agents, LLM-based features, or other non-deterministic systems is a strong asset. \nWhat You Will Do \nQuality engineering & automated testing \nApply strong testing fundamentals and heuristics to identify product risks, edge cases, failure modes, and gaps in expected behaviour \nInvestigate failures and unexpected behaviour and act of them.\nConfigure and use agentic tools with various degree of autonomy, to accelerate test creation, maintenance, analysis, failure triage, and other recurring QA activities. \nAdvocate for testability and quality throughout the development lifecycle. \nImprove the reliability, performance, and scalability of our test frameworks, internal tooling, and automated quality gates. \nEvaluate AI-generated outputs critically and ensure appropriate validation and human oversight remain part of the testing process. \nTesting AI-powered systems \nContribute to test strategies for AI-powered, LLM-based, and agentic product capabilities. \nHelp define how non-deterministic behaviour should be evaluated, including expected behaviour, quality thresholds, regression approaches, and failure analysis. \nValidate areas such as model responses, tool usage, grounding, consistency, error handling, latency, and end-to-end agent behaviour where applicable. \nCollaboration & continuous improvement \nCollaborate with Engineering, Product, and other technical teams to make quality an integral part of software development. \nShare testing patterns, tools, and lessons learned, and continuously look for ways to improve testing effectiveness and delivery speed. \nRequired Qualifications \nStrong software testing fundamentals, such as critical thinking, exploratory testing, test design, risk-based testing, common testing heuristics, and the ability to reason about customer and product impact. \nHands-on experience designing and developing automated tests for modern software applications. \nStrong programming skills in at least one language commonly used for test automation or engineering, such as TypeScript/JavaScript or Python. \nExperience with modern test automation frameworks \nExperience working with CI/CD pipelines and incorporating automated testing into software delivery workflows. \nAbility to troubleshoot complex software and automated test failures across application, test, data, and infrastructure layers. \nPractical experience leveraging AI-assisted development capabilities to automate or improve engineering and QA workflows. \nStrong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across QA, Engineering, Product, and other technical teams. \nA continuous-improvement mindset and an interest in finding better ways to make software quality faster, more scalable, and more reliable. \nPreferred Qualifications \nExperience testing AI-powered applications, LLM-based features, copilots, or autonomous or agentic systems. \nExperience developing evaluation frameworks or automated evaluations for non-deterministic AI behaviour. \nExperience building automation using agentic technologies that perform multi-step tasks or interact with engineering systems and tools. \nFamiliarity with concepts such as prompt evaluation, tool calling, grounding, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and LLM observability. \nExperience with large-scale end-to-end test suites, parallel test execution, test data management, and distributed CI environments. \nRequirements contingent on employment \nFulfill requirements necessary to obtain full background check. \nPay Range \nThe expected base salary range for this position is to $108,000 to $121,000 and may be eligible for bonus awards. 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