Senior AI Test Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Senior AI Test Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Location: Irving, TX (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Month Contract

Pay: $70-80/hr W2

W2 ONLY, NO C2C

Role Overview

The IAM Tools Engineering (ITE) team is seeking an experienced Senior AI Test Engineer to drive quality engineering for our AI enabled self-service identity platform. This is a hands-on senior role with accountability for test strategy, automation architecture, and quality outcomes across complex, distributed systems.

As a senior member of the QA discipline, you will own end to end testing across UI, API, and influence engineering best practices, and serve as a trusted quality partner to product and development teams. You will also play a key role in guiding offshore QA resources and shaping scalable, modern test automation approaches aligned with CI/CD delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the overall test strategy, including functional, integration, API, UI testing, ensuring alignment with business, security, and AI quality goals.
• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable test automation frameworks supporting:
• UI test automation
• API test automation
• Serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for hands on automation and targeted manual testing, particularly for complex or high-risk scenarios.
• Integrate automated functional into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Validate AI driven capabilities, including:
• Data quality and integrity
• Model output behavior and consistency
• Optional testing of AI based chatbots and conversational interfaces
• Collaborate with developers and product owners early in the lifecycle to ensure testability and well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and offshore QA engineers.
• Collaborate effectively with offshore teams, ensuring consistent quality standards and execution.

Proactively identify quality and performance risks and drive mitigation prior to production release.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of professional software testing experience with complex, web-based applications.
• Proven experience operating as a senior individual contributor, owning quality outcomes end to end.
• Strong hands-on experience with manual testing and advanced test automation.
• Demonstrated expertise in: UI test automation, API test automation
• Hands on experience with Playwright for UI and/or API automation (preferred) or equivalent modern frameworks with the ability to adopt Playwright quickly.
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver.
• Strong programming skills in C#
• Experience with BDD principles and writing scenarios using Gherkin.
• Experience integrating automated functional into CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of: Functional, integration, system testing, End to end testing, non functional testing
• Strong experience with Git based version control.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across a matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.

Preferred / Nice to Have Experience:

• Experience with performance testing, including: Load, stress, and endurance testing
• Performance analysis and tuning collaboration with engineering teams
• Experience using JMeter and BlazeMeter for scalable, cloud based performance execution.
• Experience with SpecFlow and/or Reqnroll.
• Familiarity with Micro Focus ALM Octane for test management.
• Experience executing tests at scale using Lambda Test HyperExecute.
• Experience testing cloud native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, including NLP and data driven systems.
• Experience testing AI based chatbots or conversational AI platforms.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot or similar AI assisted coding/testing tools.

Education:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline OR equivalent professional experience.