Software Quality Engineer (AI Acceleration Global DevOps)

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. ~ Conquering today’s challenges, achieving tomorrow’s vision!; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. is seeking a seasoned Software Quality Engineer to empower the DevOps enablement team. You will design AI-focused tests, build automation, and ensure high-quality AI integrations across pipelines and services.

The role requires strong programming in Java/Python, experience with Selenium/Playwright, and hands-on QA across API, database, and microservice testing in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Quality Engineering or QA automation.
• Strong programming experience in Java, Python, or Groovy.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Hands-on with Selenium, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Experience with API, database, and microservice testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute exploratory, automated, and AI-focused tests.
• Define test plans, cases, and data for multiple testing types.
• Develop scalable test automation frameworks.
• Create automated tests for AI-enabled features and prompts.
• Validate integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and microservices.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD with DevOps teams.
• Document defects and drive quality improvements.
• Communicate results and risks to stakeholders.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation programming

Java

Python

Groovy

AI quality testing

Test planning

BDD/ATDD

CI/CD

Debugging

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

CucumberGherkin

RestAssured

JUnit

TestNG

JMeter

Job description

SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEER (AI ACCELERATION GLOBAL DEVOPS)

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a seasoned AI first Senior Quality Engineer who is empowered to help the DevOps enablement team deliver highest level quality and is responsible for ensuring the team live quality values and principles. The DevOps team is responsible for providing pipelines, metrics and tools for use by application development teams. The incumbent will actively participate in gathering quality criteria from the user community, developing a backlog of items, prioritizing them with the teams and delivering them continually.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Partner with DevOps, Development, Product, and QE teams to design and execute exploratory, automated, and AI-focused tests that ensure product quality.
• Define quality strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data for functional, integration, system, regression, API, database, and acceptance testing.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java, Python, or Groovy.
• Build automated tests for AI-enabled features, including prompt behavior, response accuracy, hallucination risks, safety, reliability, latency, and regression coverage.
• Validate AI integrations, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, model interactions, and third-party services.
• Establish testing approaches for both deterministic and non-deterministic AI behavior, including evaluation datasets, expected behavior, quality thresholds, and repeatability.
• Integrate automated testing and AI quality checks into CICD pipelines in partnership with DevOps teams.
• Use tools and frameworks such as Selenium, CucumberGherkin, Playwright, RestAssured, JUnit, TestNG, ReadyAPI, and JMeter.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Analyze test coverage, quality trends, AI evaluation results, and production feedback to identify gaps and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver reliable, secure, and user-focused product features.
• Communicate test results, risks, quality metrics, and release recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS: WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 5 years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, test automation, or software development.
• 5 years of programming experience with Java, Python, Groovy, or a comparable language.
• 5 years of experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, CucumberGherkin, Playwright, RestAssured, or similar automation technologies.
• Experience testing functional and non-functional requirements, APIs, integrations, databases, microservices, and regression suites.
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools such as JUnit, TestNG, qTest, ReadyAPI, and JMeter.
• Understanding of TDD, ATDD, BDD, continuous testing, and risk-based testing practices.
• Experience testing AI or machine learning-powered applications, APIs, conversational systems, or generative AI features.
• Understanding of AI quality concepts such as prompt evaluation, grounding, accuracy, relevance, toxicity, bias, hallucination detection, and response consistency.
• Ability to create effective test data and evaluation datasets for AI-driven functionality.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional Agile environment.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, LLM testing, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, or model observability.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CICD pipelines, Artifactory, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Kubernetes, Maven, or Gradle.
• Experience testing cloud-native applications and distributed microservice architectures.
• Experience with security, performance, accessibility, or reliability testing.
• Experience developing automation scripts and reusable testing utilities.