Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 25, 2026.
We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to drive quality engineering for the VuSmartMaps Observability Platform through AI-enabled automation and modern testing practices. In this role, you will design intelligent test automation, build scalable validation frameworks, and leverage AI-assisted workflows to improve quality across cloud-native, distributed systems processing billions of telemetry events.
Working closely with Engineering, Product, SRE, and DevOps teams, you will help ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, secure, and production-ready.
Are you excited to be a part of VuNet's trailblazing team? Join VuNet and make a difference.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Own the end-to-end quality strategy for the VuSmartMaps Observability Platform.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for APIs, UI, distributed services, and telemetry pipelines.
- Build AI-assisted test automation using LLMs, AI agents, and intelligent testing workflows.
- Develop reusable AI Skill Definitions, prompts, and workflows for automated test generation, validation, and regression testing.
- Build browser automation using Playwright, with hands-on experience in Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) being highly desirable.
- Design and execute functional, integration, regression, performance, and resilience tests for distributed systems.
- Develop automation frameworks using Playwright, Python, Go, Bash, pytest.
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitOps, Spinnaker, or similar platforms.
- Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams to drive Shift-Left quality practices.
- Mentor QA engineers and promote automation and AI testing best practices.
What You Bring :
Required Skills :
- Strong experience in test automation for enterprise or cloud-native applications.
- Proficiency in Python (preferred), Go, or similar programming languages.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright and modern API/UI automation frameworks.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, REST APIs, and microservices.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Skills :
- Experience building AI-powered test automation using LLMs and AI coding assistants.
- Experience writing AI Skill Definitions and agentic testing workflows.
- Knowledge of Playwright MCP or similar AI-assisted browser automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and ClickHouse.
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elastic Observability, or New Relic is an added advantage.
Skills
Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Automation Testing, Playwright Testing, Functional Testing, PyTest, API Testing, Observability Services, Test Strategy