SDET

Cornerstone Research; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

CornerstoneOnDemand is seeking an SDET to lead quality engineering for AI-enabled services hosted on AWS. You will design and build automated test frameworks and suites that validate intelligent automation solutions, AI models, and Gen AI features, ensuring high quality releases across global customers.

You will own test strategy, automate regression/integration, and participate in production monitoring, while collaborating with engineering, product, platform and data teams to ensure robust

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in automation testing backend services in Java/Python.
• Experience with REST API testing and distributed systems.
• Experience with testing modern web UIs and end-to-end browser automation.
• Experience with LLM integrations in AI features.

Responsibilities

• Design and build test automation frameworks for AI backend & frontend on AWS.
• Own quality end-to-end: test strategy, automated regression and integration suites, CI/CD test pipeline integration and production monitoring.
• Validate retrieval quality for RAG architecture, including relevance testing for hybrid vector search and data integrity.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, platform and data teams on design reviews to inject quality.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing where automation isn’t feasible.

Skills

Automation testing

Backend testing

Frontend testing

REST API testing

Distributed systems

Async programming

Test strategy

Browser automation

LLM integrations

Engineering fundamentals

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

We're looking for a

SDET

Office Based, Hyderabad Office

CornerstoneOnDemand is looking for a motivated SDET who will lead the quality engineering for our outgoing AI technologies using AWS, Claude and other Generative AI tools. You will be responsible for designing and building automated test frameworks and suites that validate our intelligent automation solutions, AI models and custom Gen AI, ensuring they are released with high quality and reliability across the organizations of the world.

In this role, you will…

• Design and build test automation frameworks for our AI backend & frontend services on AWS, covering API contract testing, load/performance testing and deployment validation for AI models.
• Own quality end-to-end: test strategy, automated regression and integration suites, CI/CD test pipeline integration and production quality monitoring/alerting.
• Validate retrieval quality for our RAG architecture on Weaviate, including relevance testing for hybrid vector, keyword search, ingestion pipeline data integrity and semantic cache correctness.
• Partner with engineering, product, platform and data engineering teams in architecture discussions and design review, bringing quality lens to new features.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing for scenarios where automation isn’t feasible or sufficient.

You’ve Got What It Takes If You Have…

• 2-4 years of experience in automation testing backend services in Java or Python and JavaScript or TypeScript for frontend.
• Solid understanding of REST API testing, distributed systems, async programming and test strategy for service-oriented architectures.
• Experience testing modern web UIs, component level testing and end-to-end browser automation.
• Experience testing systems with LLM integrations across backend and user-facing AI features.
  Strong engineering fundamentals.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to cloud platforms, AWS or Azure or GCP.
• Experience with prompt engineering or experimenting with LLMs.
• Personal projects involving AI.

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Our Culture:

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Who We Are:

At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI™, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph™, translating signals into intelligence, targeting learning where it matters, developing critical skills, and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open, enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day, Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale, security, and trust, with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader, Cornerstone is helping approximately 7,000 organizations, 140M+ users, across 186 countries build continuous workforce readiness.

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