Senior Automation QA Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in the United States, with McLean, Virginia as a listed location; other eligible locations include New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, and Washington, DC.

Base compensation: $82,000–$152,200 USD for eligible U.S. locations; $94,000–$175,000 USD in certain listed locations. The role may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides specialized software, trusted content, data, intelligence, and solutions for legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media professionals.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain resilient, performant, scalable automation frameworks across multiple products.
• Create and execute test plans and Playwright-based functional tests covering critical workflows and edge cases.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to generate and maintain test scripts, analyze failures, identify root causes, and recommend fixes.
• Apply MCP to connect Claude with requirements systems, defect trackers, and test execution logs.
• Lead technical decisions on test automation architecture, evaluate new tools, and recommend application improvements.
• Coordinate quality reviews, audits, status reporting, process improvements, and QA team mentoring.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Advanced Python and JavaScript/TypeScript skills, with experience creating clean, modular, reusable, and maintainable automation code.
• Hands-on Playwright experience for web application test automation is required.
• Advanced experience applying AI tools and technologies such as AI-assisted test generation, self-healing scripts, or code-completion tools.
• Experience leading or mentoring QA engineers and building test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Comprehensive knowledge of testing methodologies and techniques, including backend and frontend testing and automation.
• Experience working in an agile development environment and performing functional, integration, system, acceptance, performance, volume, load, and fallback testing.
• Systematic, disciplined, analytical approach; ability to work with broad performance guidelines, changing priorities, simultaneous activities, and tight deadlines.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. National Security Clearance and U.S. citizenship are essential.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
• Work from anywhere is available for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Flexible vacation, paid holidays, sick and safe time off, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and two company-wide mental health days.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, retirement savings with company match, flexible spending and health savings accounts, and employee assistance resources.
• Tuition reimbursement, skills development programs, incentive programs, fitness reimbursement, commuter benefits, and employee stock purchase plan.
• Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.