Inside IR35 - Software Development Engineer in Test - AI and Cloud

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Cambridge is seeking an experienced Test Engineer for a contract role focused on validating cloud and AI services. Candidates must have over 12 years of QA experience, strong automation skills, and knowledge of API testing. This position involves functional and performance testing, as well as implementing automated test suites. AI experience is essential, and immediate start is available.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software testing/QA for cloud apps (.NET/Microsoft stack).
• Strong automation framework design skills.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Functional, performance, and security testing of services on Azure.
• Design and implement automated test suites for APIs, components, and AI pipelines.
• Define and track service-level quality metrics.

Skills

Software testing

API testing

Automation framework design

Azure DevOps

Cloud applications

LLM evaluation

Security testing

Bias detection

Tools

Azure DevOps

Containers

Job description

Job Description

Contract Software Development Engineer in Test – Cloud and AI Services. We’re seeking an experienced Test Engineer (contract role) to validate and assure the quality of cloud- AI services and APIs.

This role will require 3 days onsite in Cambridge.

This is an opportunity to join a pioneering and well-reasourced AI project from one of the leading Software business in the UK. We need engineers who want to solve new problems and push the boundaries of Test and QA. AI experience is a must and LLM testing knowledge will really set you apart.

Responsibilities

• Functional, performance, and security testing of services on Azure.
• Design and implement automated test suites for APIs, components, and AI pipelines.
• Automate evaluation of AI outputs (accuracy, safety, relevance).
• Define and track service-level quality metrics.
• Validate against AI safety/regulatory standards.
• Support threat modelling and API security testing.

Skills & Experience

• 12+ years in software testing/QA for cloud- apps (.NET/Microsoft stack).
• Strong automation framework design skills.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, containers.
• Solid knowledge of API, performance, and security testing (OWASP Top 10).
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, RAG, hallucination detection.
• Awareness of AI safety, bias detection, and compliance.

Contract position – immediate start.