QA Test Engineer

QA Test Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA, USA

Duration: 12+ Month Contract

Must have strong AI experience

Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, Data/Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

Top Skills Required:

• 3+ years in QA automation or SDET-type work (adjust by level); 1+ year exposure to AI/LLM or ML-driven features is a plus.
• Strong test automation in Python and/or Java/TypeScript.
• We are a platform team, testing APIs for high performance, automation will be primary focus.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.

Additional Skills Required:

• Hands-on with frameworks/tools such as: UI: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium and API: pytest + requests, Postman/Newman, REST Assured.
• CI/CD integration: Git, GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI, test reporting, gating.
• Test design: equivalence partitioning, boundary testing, risk-based testing, defect triage.
• AI-Specific Testing Competencies (Key): LLM/application behavior testing: validating correctness when outputs are probabilistic.
• Evaluation strategies: golden datasets, scoring rubrics, human-in-the-loop reviews.
• Non-determinism handling: statistical assertions, repeated runs, variance thresholds.
• Prompt and regression management: versioning prompts, detecting prompt drift, replay tests.
• RAG testing (if applicable): retrieval quality (recall/precision), grounding checks, citation validation, doc freshness.
• Safety & quality checks: hallucination detection, toxicity/PII leakage checks, policy compliance tests.
• Data & Observability: Ability to create and maintain test datasets (structured + unstructured), including edge cases.
• Familiarity with telemetry for AI systems: logging prompts/outputs safely, traceability, correlation IDs - tools like OpenTelemetry, ELK/Splunk, Datadog/Grafana (any equivalent).
• Understanding of data privacy constraints (masking/redaction) and secure test data practices.
• API / Microservices / Cloud: Comfortable testing distributed systems: microservices, async workflows, queues/events.
• Basic cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker, optional Kubernetes).
• Performance & Reliability Testing (AI-Aware): Load/performance testing for inference endpoints (latency, throughput, concurrency).
• Cost-aware testing (token usage, rate limits, fallbacks).
• Resilience tests: retries, circuit breakers, model timeouts, degraded-mode behavior.

Nice-to-Have Domain Knowledge:

• Familiarity with NLP concepts (embeddings, context windows, temperature/top-p).
• Experience with AI tooling: LangChain/LlamaIndex, evaluation tools, model gateways.
• Knowledge of regulatory/security needs relevant to the telecom domain.

Soft Skills / Ways of Working:

• Strong communication —able to explain AI quality issues clearly to product and engineering.
• Comfortable partnering with data science/ML engineers and backend teams.
• Ownership mindset: building reusable test harnesses, improving quality metrics, preventing regressions.