AI Quality & Test Engineer New Washington, DC

Simple Technology Solutions, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Work from home stipend

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Professional development budget

Job summary

Simple Technology Solutions, LLC is seeking an AI Quality & Test Engineer to own the end-to-end testing of AI applications built on AWS-native services. You will design test strategies, execute UAT and integration tests, and ensure AI outputs meet acceptance criteria in a remote, nationally distributed team.

You will lead automated testing in CI/CD, collaborate with business analysts and users, and help advance QA standards across the STS SDLC, including security and regulatory compliance for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of software quality engineering or test automation experience, including at least 2 years testing AI/ML components.
• Experience building automated end-to-end test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines and defining quality gates.
• Experience leading user-acceptance testing with business or mission users, ideally in federal or regulated environments.
• Strong test automation skills in Python or TypeScript with Playwright, pytest, or Jest, plus API testing tools.
• Knowledge of LLM evaluation techniques, including golden datasets, rubric-based evaluation, and model regression testing.
• Working knowledge of AWS Bedrock and AWS services for testing AI features.
• Familiarity with GitHub, Jira, and CI/CD pipelines; ability to derive tests from use cases.

Responsibilities

• Define the test strategy for AI applications including unit, integration, end-to-end, UAT, security, and AI-behavior testing.
• Design, build, and execute end-to-end and user-acceptance tests across DEV, TST, STG, and PRD.
• Build evaluation harnesses for AI behavior with datasets and rubric-based grading.
• Act as tester in AI development workflow; improve testing agents and skills.
• Automate tests in CI/CD in partnership with platform engineer; own quality gates between environments.
• Validate acceptance criteria with business analyst and real users; capture release evidence.
• Triage, reproduce, and track defects in Jira; drive resolution with engineers.
• Test on AWS-native AI stacks (Bedrock) when required by clients.
• Assess performance, cost, and resilience of AI features under load; report findings.
• Contribute test standards and tooling; coach team on AI evaluation practices.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Python

TypeScript

Playwright

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

pytest

Jest

GitHub

Jira

Job description

At Simple Technology Solutions, our people are our priority. We know our team members are more than employees—they’re parents, friends, volunteers, artists, and athletes. That’s why we offer flexibility to help them thrive personally and professionally while delivering exceptional solutions to our Federal Government clients.

Our culture is built on collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence. We are mentors and thought leaders who share knowledge and foster growth. Recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” we believe a range of perspectives helps us drive innovation and exceed customer expectations. At STS, taking care of our people isn’t a perk—it’s the standard.

As a HUBZone company, we also offer special incentives for team members living in qualified HUBZones. Check out the HUBZone map HERE to see if you qualify!

Quick Position Overview:

• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance are required
• Bachelor's Degree is required
• Minimum of 8 years' position related experience is required
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner or Developer (Associate) certification preferred for hire; the AWS and Anthropic Claude certifications listed under Required Certifications must be earned within 12 months of hire
• Remote position with occasional travel to client sites and STS events
• Candidates living in the DC Metro region (within driving distance for quarterly in-person team events) are strongly preferred; STS is a HUBZone company, so residence in a HUBZone is favored for remote candidates

The Role:

The AI Quality & Test Engineer owns the second human bookend of the STS SDLC: proving that what the team built does what the requirements say, works end to end for real users, and behaves acceptably as an AI system. You design the test strategy from the requirements trio, build and run end-to-end and user-acceptance testing, and define how AI outputs are evaluated so that quality is measured rather than assumed. Success looks like test gates the team trusts, defects found before users do, and clear evidence at every release that the solution meets its acceptance criteria. You bring the same discipline to engagements that run on AWS-native AI services or other client toolchains.

The AI Quality & Test Engineer at STS will:

• Define the test strategy for each AI application project from the requirements trio, including unit, integration, end-to-end, user-acceptance, security, and AI-behavior testing, and the coverage and gate thresholds the project will use.
• Design, build, and execute end-to-end and user-acceptance tests that exercise complete use cases as real users would, across DEV, TST, STG, and PRD.
• Build evaluation harnesses for AI behavior, including golden datasets, rubric-based and model-assisted grading, regression suites for prompts and retrieval, and guardrail and safety checks.
• Operate as the tester in the team's AI development workflow, using and improving the shared testing agents and skills, and ensuring tests derived from use cases exist before application code is written.
• Automate tests in the CI/CD pipeline in partnership with the platform engineer, and own the quality gates that govern promotion between environments.
• Validate acceptance criteria with the business analyst and real users, facilitate user-acceptance testing sessions, and capture results as release evidence.
• Triage, reproduce, and track defects in Jira, drive them to resolution with engineers, and analyze defect trends to improve upstream requirements and development practices.
• Test on AWS-native AI stacks, including Amazon Bedrock models, agents, and knowledge bases, when a client requires them in place of STS's standard toolchain.
• Assess performance, cost, and resilience of AI features under realistic load and failure conditions, and report findings with recommendations.
• Contribute test standards, templates, and tooling back to the STS SDLC, and coach the team on test-driven development and AI evaluation practices.

Education and Experience:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience in addition to the minimum below
• Minimum of 8 years of software quality engineering or test automation experience, including at least 2 years testing applications built on large language models or other AI/ML components
• Demonstrated experience building automated end-to-end test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines and defining quality gates for a delivery team
• Experience leading user-acceptance testing with business or mission users, ideally in a federal or regulated environment
• Strong test automation skills in Python or TypeScript using frameworks such as Playwright, pytest, or Jest, plus API testing tools
• Practical knowledge of LLM evaluation techniques, including golden datasets, rubric and model-graded evaluation, retrieval quality metrics, and prompt and model regression testing
• Working knowledge of Amazon Bedrock and AWS application services sufficient to test and troubleshoot deployed AI features
• Fluency with GitHub, Jira, and CI/CD pipelines, and with reading use cases and specifications to derive tests
• Familiarity with security testing basics and federal compliance expectations for test evidence
• Skeptical in the best sense; assumes nothing works until it is demonstrated, including AI output that reads well
• Collaborative and constructive, treating defects as information for the team rather than blame
• Self-directed and comfortable owning outcomes on a small, senior team where everyone contributes across the lifecycle
• Curious and current on AI tooling; treats AI assistants as part of the team and holds their output to the same standard as human work
• Clear, candid communicator with federal clients and teammates; writes well and documents as a habit
• Bias toward fast delivery and early user feedback over conservative gating; learns from failure quickly

Required Certifications (to be earned within 12 months of hire)

• AWS Certified AI Practitioner or AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) or Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F)

Preferred Certifications

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) and ISTQB Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• CompTIA Security+
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Professional development and training
• Performance-based incentives
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Work from home stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays
• Professional development budget to be used for training and certifications

STS is committed to equal employment opportunity and merit-based employment practices. STS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in all employment practices and decisions in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Employment decisions at STS are based on individual qualifications, performance, skills, and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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