IVR QA Lead

ClifyX Inc; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ClifyX Inc in North Carolina is seeking an IVR/Chatbot Test Analyst to interact with customers and understand business testing requirements. You will lead testing activities from planning to reporting, focusing on chatbot, agentic, and manual testing, collaborating with top talent to deliver high-quality, defect-free solutions.

The role demands strong leadership, excellent communication, and hands-on experience with IVR, chatbots, NLP, and testing tools like Cyara and Agentic.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution.
• 10+ years in IT testing, preferably contact center Kore.ai/ASAPP/Google GECX platforms testing voice assistants, chatbots, NLP frameworks.
• 3+ years’ experience in Cyara or Agentic Automation testing tools.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to handle clients independently.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing activities from planning to execution to reporting.
• Test manual and automation testing for IVR and chatbot applications.
• Validate API requests/responses (JSON/XML) and NLP/LLM agent testing.
• Develop test plans, test cases, defects, and reports.
• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to meet requirements.
• Identify and track defects, ensuring timely closure.
• Use SSH/Putty to access Linux builds and logs for debugging.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

STLC knowledge

Manual testing

Automation testing

API testing

SQL queries

JIRA/Octane

Test reporting

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cyara

Agentic

Postman

Linux SSH/Putty

Job description

In the role of IVR/Chatbot Test Analyst, you will interact with customers and understand the business testing requirements. You will play an important role in Chatbot, Agentic and manual testing. You will lead all types of testing activities from planning to execution to reporting. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create innovative high quality and defect-free solutions to meet our clients’ business needs. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.

Qualifications

Basic

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution
• At least 10+ years of experience with Information Technology, preferably in Contact center Kore.ai, ASAPP or Google GECX platforms testing voice assistants, Chatbots, Voicebots, IVR systems, or NLP frameworks (e.g., ASR, TTS, Intent Recognition, NER)
• 3+ years’ experience in Cyara or Agentic Automation testing tools
• Strong leadership skills and prior experience in leading the team and handling clients independently
• Good communication skills and stakeholder management skills

Experience

• Should have In-depth knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) preferably in Contact center space
• Should have good experience in manual and automation testing in IVR and Chatbots. Good to have Google Agentic platform experience/knowledge.
• Domain knowledge on IVR or Chatbot manual Testing and automation testing using Cyara and Agentic tools
• Testing IVR or Chat applications on Kore, Dialog AI, ASAPP, Google GECX platform features against the call flow and requirements and go beyond traditional software testing to evaluate deeply integrated systems
• Should be a quick learner, flexible to work in stringent project timelines and should have willingness to adapt to Agentic testing mindset.
• JSON and XML RESTful API request/response testing, API testing tools (Postman)
• Writing test plans, test cases, defects, knowledge transfer documentation, and reports. Design, build, and scale automated testing frameworks capable of validating Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM) agents, and real-time performance.
• Identify and analyze any bugs found during testing, document them and do required follow-up to bring it closure.
• Using SSH client putty connected to Linux machines to grab builds and logs, modify and run scripts, and set up host simulators
• Should have good hands‑on SQL queries and good understanding of RDBS
• Experience with User Story and Defect management systems (Octane and JIRA)
• Experienced in work allocation, team management and status reporting
• Experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Test Management aspects such as developing test Strategies, defect reports, defect tracking, traceability matrices using Jira
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment