AI-Driven QA Engineer (Hybrid, NYC)

New York Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)

company-matching 401(k) plan

paid vacation

paid sick days

paid parental leave

tuition reimbursement

professional development programs

Job summary

The New York Times Company is seeking a QA Engineer within the Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with product engineers, DevOps, product managers, and designers to support quality across web, mobile, and API platforms in a hybrid New York City role.

You will advocate for test coverage, build automated tests, and contribute to TestOps practices using AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude, while aligning with an offshore QA team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in test automation, TestOps, or software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python with maintainable automation code and test frameworks.
• Experience with Selenium and Appium; familiarity with REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; knowledge of test environment provisioning.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding or automated test generation tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude).
• Ability to identify gaps and propose sustainable automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Be a Quality Partner to the product engineering teams, guiding them on test requirements, testing needs, and uncovering nuanced edge cases.
• Work with the offshore QA team for testing coverage and support.
• Assess, fix, and write both manual and automated tests that directly correspond to the features developed by the team you support.
• Create scalable test environments and tools that accelerate release velocity and improve reliability.
• Partner with development, DevOps, and product teams to define test strategy and ensure quality from brainstorming through deployment.
• Apply observability and analytics to quality engineering — integrating logs, metrics, and telemetry to surface product insights.
• Help evolve best practices for TestOps, automation design, and AI-assisted development.

Skills

Python

Test automation

Selenium

Appium

REST/GraphQL APIs

QA collaboration

AI-assisted tooling

Edge case analysis

Quality engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Cursor

Copilot

Claude

REST APIs

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

The New York Times Company is seeking a QA Engineer within the Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with product engineers, DevOps, product managers, and designers to support quality across web, mobile, and API platforms in a hybrid New York City role.

You will advocate for test coverage, build automated tests, and contribute to TestOps practices using AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude, while aligning with an offshore QA team.