AI-Driven QA Engineer: Cloud & API Automation

Trinnex; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith Inc. is seeking a Quality Engineer in the United States to design, develop, and maintain automated testing across API, web, mobile, and performance scenarios.

You will drive AI-assisted QA enablement, CI/CD integration, and reliability improvements while mentoring junior analysts and collaborating across product, development, and operations teams. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and about 5 years of relevant experience, with hands-on experience in Playwright, Maestro,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 5+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites across API, web, mobile, and performance testing domains.
• Builds reusable test utilities, fixtures, and frameworks that improve reliability, reduce maintenance effort, support consistent test data, and reduce flakiness.
• Develops mobile test automation, including simulator and emulator execution, mobile authentication flows, API mocking strategies, and mobile CI/CD integration.
• Develops and applies AI-assisted tooling, agents, and skills to support test review, debugging, documentation, automation maintenance, and developer productivity.
• Supports scalable cloud-based load testing using Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and related infrastructure practices.
• Analyzes requirements, test results, defects, logs, traces, and performance metrics to identify risks, root causes, business impact, and opportunities for quality improvement.
• Integrates automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with effective reporting, parallel execution, environment management, and failure analysis.
• Establishes QA best practices, coding standards, documentation, and troubleshooting guidance for automation and cloud-based testing.
• Reviews test automation pull requests and provides clear feedback on reliability, maintainability, and quality.
• Mentors junior QA analysts and collaborates with development, product, and operations teams to improve testing outcomes.

Skills

Playwright

Maestro

Test Automation

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

iOS Testing

Android Testing

YAML

CI/CD

GKE

Kubernetes

Docker

AI-assisted tooling

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Playwright

Maestro

Kubernetes

GKE

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CDM Smith Inc. is seeking a Quality Engineer in the United States to design, develop, and maintain automated testing across API, web, mobile, and performance scenarios.

You will drive AI-assisted QA enablement, CI/CD integration, and reliability improvements while mentoring junior analysts and collaborating across product, development, and operations teams. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and about 5 years of relevant experience, with hands-on experience in Playwright, Maestro,