Senior QA Engineer (Automation + AI / ML)
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General Description Join a fast-growing, technology-driven organization delivering advanced digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions at scale.
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General Description
Join a fast-growing, technology-driven organization delivering advanced digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions at scale.
We are looking for a
Senior QA Engineer with strong automation expertise and exposure to AI/ML systems
to help ensure high quality, reliability, and performance across modern enterprise applications.
This role is ideal for a
hands-on, senior-level QA engineer who can independently design and implement automation frameworks, validate complex system behaviors, and support quality assurance for AI-driven features and intelligent platforms.
You will work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to build scalable automation strategies and ensure high-confidence releases across APIs, applications, and AI-powered components.
This is a
freelance / contract, hybrid role with an urgent hiring timeline
, supporting engineering teams building high-impact digital and AI-enabled solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable
- test automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing
- .
- Implement automated regression suites integrated with
- CI/CD pipelines
- to ensure fast and reliable releases.
- Validate complex workflows, distributed systems, and
- microservices-based architectures
- .
- Collaborate with developers and product teams to
- define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality standards
- early in the development lifecycle.
- Identify test coverage gaps and improve automation coverage across critical system components.
- Support testing of
- AI/ML-powered features
- , including validation of model outputs, response accuracy, and system behavior.
- Develop strategies for
- test data management, environment stability, and automated test execution
- .
- Perform root cause analysis of defects and work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability.
- Contribute to
- quality metrics, reporting, and release readiness
- .
- Drive
- automation-first testing practices
- and mentor team members where needed.
Required Skills & Experience
At least
7–10+ years of experience in software quality assurance
, with strong focus on
test automation
.
Proven experience designing and implementing
automation frameworks from scratch
.
Strong hands-on experience with automation tools such as:
• Selenium And Cypress And Playwright
- REST API automation tools (Postman, RestAssured, or similar)
- Strong programming or scripting experience in
Python, Java, or JavaScript
.
Experience Testing
API-driven architectures and microservices environments
.
Solid understanding of
CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration
.
Experience Validating
complex test scenarios and enterprise-scale systems
.
Exposure to
AI/ML systems or AI-enabled applications
, including testing model outputs, prompts, or intelligent system behaviors.
Strong debugging, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work
independently in a contract environment
with minimal supervision.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical teams.
Preferred And Nice To Have
- Experience testing
- AI-powered applications, LLM-based systems, or data-driven platforms
- .
- Familiarity with
- performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, or similar)
- .
- Experience working in
- cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- .
- Background in
- DevOps practices and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
- .
- Experience working in
- enterprise or high-scale distributed systems
- .
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