Lead AI Quality & Test Automation Engineer

Illumina; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumina in San Diego, CA seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer focused on AI Quality & Test Automation. You will set the technical direction for enterprise QA, lead our Tricentis platform, and design agentic testing strategies that scale across SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday and custom apps.

You will build AI-driven test workflows, craft evaluation frameworks for AI agents, and ensure audit-ready evidence for GxP and regulatory standards while mentoring engineers and shaping the QA community.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software quality engineering with 5+ years in lead/staff roles setting strategy across multiple teams.
• 5+ years hands-on Tricentis Tosca at enterprise scale; knowledge of qTest and NeoLoad or SeaLights.
• Proven delivery of test automation for enterprise apps (SAP S/4HANA or ECC, Salesforce).
• 1+ year building or operating LLM-based or agentic testing in production, not just PoCs.
• Strong coding in at least two of Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java or C#.
• Deep CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab or Jenkins; quality gates.
• Experience in regulated environments (GxP, medical device, SOX) and audit-ready evidence.
• Clear written and spoken communication with engineers, product owners and executives.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise test strategy with risk-based, shift-left and shift-right planning across SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and AI agents.
• Lead the Tricentis platform: Tosca, qTest, NeoLoad, SeaLights as a unified quality platform with standards and libraries.
• Design multi-agent test workflows that generate, execute, heal and triage tests with audit trails and human approvals.
• Create evaluation framework gates for AI agents: golden datasets, LLM scoring, red-teaming, safety checks and cost controls.
• Connect agents to tools through MCP; integrate Tricentis MCP with Claude, Copilot, Cursor and Codex under Enterprise AI gateway.
• Embed quality in CI/CD: implement test impact analysis, quality gates and release risk scoring in pipelines.
• Deliver GxP-compliant evidence; collaborate with Quality & Regulatory for CSA and Part 11 practices.
• Mentor senior staff engineers, lead reviews, write playbooks and strengthen QA communities of practice.
• Measure and report quality metrics: escape rate, automation coverage, cycle time and cost per test.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Tosca

qTest

NeoLoad

SeaLights

Job description

Illumina in San Diego, CA seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer focused on AI Quality & Test Automation. You will set the technical direction for enterprise QA, lead our Tricentis platform, and design agentic testing strategies that scale across SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday and custom apps.

You will build AI-driven test workflows, craft evaluation frameworks for AI agents, and ensure audit-ready evidence for GxP and regulatory standards while mentoring engineers and shaping the QA community.