Automation AI Tester

Location: Plano, TX, US; onsite at the office 3 days per week

Company

Multinational telecommunications technology company.

What you will do

• Lead automation, performance, and AI-enabled quality engineering strategy.
• Design and develop maintainable automated frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Establish load, stress, endurance, scalability, and performance engineering practices; identify bottlenecks and drive remediation.
• Build agentic workflows for testing, triage, test-data preparation, defect analysis, and other quality engineering processes.
• Integrate automated tests and AI workflows into CI/CD pipelines, define quality gates, metrics, and release-readiness reporting.
• Guide test planning, risk assessment, test-data and environment strategy, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, and test automation, including substantial technical leadership.
• Experience building and scaling automation frameworks for APIs and web applications.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or another applicable language.
• Practical experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, Postman, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent tools.
• Experience designing performance tests, interpreting results, and driving remediation.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI/LLM applications and building agentic workflows with tool use, orchestration, and API or enterprise-system integrations.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated results and address reliability, privacy, security, and human review in AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated testing into delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of test strategy, software development lifecycle, defect management, quality metrics, team leadership, mentoring, and cross-team influence.

Culture & Benefits

• One-year contract engagement.
• Onsite collaboration in the Plano office three days per week.