QE AI Lead Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 20, 2026. NTT DATA scores B on the Alion truth index.
The team you'll be working with:
As a QE AI Engineer & QE Architect, you will have the opportunity of joining an award winning Quality Engineering team that is working on some of the most cutting edge technologies that is embracing new innovations, such as in built quality checks that embraces AI/GenAI & agentic AI across the full SDLC. What is key to this role is the ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
What you'll be doing:
This is a hands on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC not just test automation and QE. You will lead the expansion of our existing portfolio of Quality Engineering assets and services. Having strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders is a must.
You will join a highly focused quality engineering team that are experts in driving a AI & agentic AI engineering led approach to driving value for our clients. You are responsible to ensure Shift-Left Testing emphasising early testing in the development lifecycle. You will have experience of multiple Automation Frameworks that support various types of testing.
You will play a key role as an AI mentor and train your team on the latest testing tools and methodologies.
You will always look for ways to drive SDLC efficiencies and to improve the quality engineering approach. You will have knowledge on capturing the value created through defining and tracking quality metrics.
What experience you'll bring:
- Extensive experience as a Senior QE SDET Engineer or Senior Developer
- Has breadth of experience across different tech-stacks, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or Python, amongst others
- Experienced in RAG Weaviate, OpenAI, Agents, MCP, Langchain, Prompt Engineering, Browser-Use, and Django
- Experienced building AI Tools, Agents and Agentic workflows (LangGraph, CrwAI)
- Hands-on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC - not just test automation and QE.
- Experienced in building RAG system with a nice-to-have on fine-tuning LLMs
- Cleaning/augmenting data
- Comfortable with IAS (Infra As Code) eg. giving a high-level spec
- Fully understands test automation (across platforms and functional/non-functional) and associated tech
- Presentation skills - C-Suite clients and in-house
- Mentoring - non-AI SDETs
- Innovation - art of the possible
- Experienced in Junit, Jest, PyTest, NUnit, Appium, WDIO, Selenium, Cypress, BrowserStack, Swagger, WireMock, Postman et al
- Development frameworks: Spring, Angular, .NET, Node et al
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker/AWS, Azure DevOps
- Databases: SqlServer, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, H2
- BDD: Cucumber, FitNesse, SpecFlow, RestAssured, EasyB et al
- Performance: Gatling, JMeter, WebPageTest, LightHouse
- Security & code quality: SonarQube, Jacoco, PiTest, OWASP, Axe et al
- Hands on software test automation, ideally founded on a background as a senior Developer
- Experienced in building a strategy covering all aspects of the SDLC process, development, automation, CI, and metrics
- Hands on using Spring Java, Angular, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Junit, Jest, Cucumber, Bash, Gatling et al
- Experienced in helping teams evolve an Agile ‘Shift Left’ way of working
- Experience of building advanced and feature rich test automation frameworks from scratch using Object-oriented and scripted languages
- Has a depth of knowledge in the Object-oriented Programming paradigm (OOP) and has practically applied the principles
- Comfortable working with Git repositories and workflows on multiple tasks concurrently
- Ability to manage and lead code review processes, mitigate conflicts within the team and get quality work merged in the main branch
- Proactively collaborate with the Front-end development team, understand the design of the Front-end and discussing issues with the developers to better understand requirements and expectations
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
- Understanding of non-functional requirements and testing, with a focus on performance (but also accessibility, compatibility and aspects of security)
Nice to have
- MCP, Django and nice-to-have Entra/Gunicorn
- GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins (any experience on these will be beneficial)
- AWS experience
- Experience with any of these tools: Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io (but with strong experience in Selenium)
- Understanding (better experience) with Contract Testing frameworks (preferably PACT)
- Experience setting up E2E testing frameworks with automation in mind, covering all the aspects of the SDLC
Who we are:
At NTT DATA, you have endless opportunities to think big, act bold and take ownership. As a $30+ billion business and technology services, AI and digital infrastructure leader, we co-innovate solutions with clients and partners globally for business and societal impact. Serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100, with experts in over 70 countries, we encourage experimentation and recognize great work. Proudly a Global Top Employer, NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion annually in R&D. Make this the place where you belong, learn, and build your network. Make this the place where you grow.
what we'll offer you:
We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.
You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: https://uk.nttdata.com/
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
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