[Remote] QA Engineer- SDET, AI-Driven Test Automation

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advanced Tech Placement is seeking a QA Engineer- SDET to join their team. The role focuses on building AI-driven test automation across the product suite, particularly for payment and billing flows, treating quality as a software problem and leveraging AI for solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own test automation frameworks for web UI (Playwright preferred) and APIs (REST, contract tests at service boundaries)
• Build integration and e2e coverage for payment-critical flows. Hosted and iframe-embedded payment pages, merchant onboarding, webhooks, recurring billing, refunds, and reconciliation
• Cover multiple payment rails and regions including Cards with 3DS, ACH and eCheck in the US, PAD / ACSS debit in Canada, and surcharging rules that differ by card type
• Own test data management, including seeding, isolation, teardown, and realistic finance scenarios
• Test feature-flag and entitlement matrices to ensure coverage across different regions, brands, processor routing, and package tiers
• Wire quality gates into CI/CD (TeamCity, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable, deterministic suites
• Track and drive down flake to maintain a reliable test suite
• Use AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot to generate test cases, scaffold suites, refactor brittle tests, and analyze failures
• Build AI-assisted workflows for test generation from acceptance criteria
• Evaluate and adopt AI-native testing approaches
• Shift quality left by reviewing acceptance criteria for testability before development starts
• Define test strategy with the pod and own regression, E2E, and UAT cycles that gate payment releases
• Build observability into the test layer to ensure failures are self-explanatory
• Contribute performance and load baselines for payment endpoints and monitor for regressions

Skills

• 4 years as an SDET, automation engineer, or quality-focused software engineer
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with C# as a strong plus
• Deep, hands-on Playwright experience
• Solid API testing experience
• Comfort testing third-party embedded UI
• Working SQL skills to verify data state in SQL Server
• CI/CD fluency, with experience building or owning pipelines
• Daily use of AI coding assistants for test work
• Curiosity about agentic and AI-native testing
• Judgment about where AI output needs human review
• Experience testing payment, billing, fintech, or other correctness-critical systems
• Understanding of idempotency, race conditions, and async workflows
• Risk-based thinking to determine what to automate, explore manually, and skip
• Strong communication skills for clear bug reports, test plans, and failure analyses
• Experience with performance and load testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter)
• Familiarity with visual regression tooling and accessibility testing (axe, WCAG)
• Experience with Docker, AWS, and testing against containerized environments
• Experience with Jira-driven workflows and acceptance-criteria-based delivery
• Prior work in a pod or squad model embedded with developers

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