Lead SDET: AI Testing & Automation Architect Remote Eligible

Alteryx Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work stipend

Home office stipend

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Wellness support

Education assistance

Job summary

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Lead SDET to own test strategy, design scalable automation, and advance AI-driven product workflows. You will champion UI/API testing with Selenium, Playwright, and Locust, while guiding a cross‑functional agile team.

The role emphasizes strong Python engineering, LangChain/LangSmith expertise, and the ability to translate production issues into robust regression coverage, with CI/CD participation and performance testing.

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating AI agents, including multi-step task completion, tool selection, tool-call accuracy, and failure recovery.
• Working knowledge of agent frameworks, preferably LangChain, with the ability to understand and debug context handling, tool execution, and agent state.
• Hands-on experience with LangSmith or similar platforms for evaluation datasets, custom evaluators, experiments, and comparisons across agent changes.
• Experience with agent observability, using traces and telemetry to investigate quality issues, latency, token usage, and cost.
• Strong Python software engineering skills to build and extend evaluation tooling, metrics pipelines, and reporting systems.
• JavaScript or TypeScript experience is a nice‑to‑have.
• Applied statistics and data analysis skills to assess variability, compare experiments, and distinguish meaningful improvements from noise; modeling experience is a plus.
• Experience developing evaluation datasets and scoring methods, combining deterministic checks, human feedback, and LLM‑based judges.
• Ability to contribute at a technical lead level, guiding evaluation practices, mentoring engineers, integrating evaluations into CI/CD, and translating production failures into regression coverage

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements to produce a comprehensive test strategy and detailed test cases.
• Design and implement manual and automated tests at all levels in the test pyramid, including unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels.
• Design, build, and enhance scalable automated test frameworks to support feature testing and AI-driven product workflows.
• Develop and maintain automation for UI and API tests using tools such as Selenium, pytest, and Playwright.
• Conduct performance and load testing (using tools like Locust) to ensure product scalability.
• Build test reports using reporting tools such as Allure.
• Report regressions to a corresponding dev team.
• Influence design decisions by providing timely feedback on design documents and testability.
• Collaborate closely with other members of an agile team, including engineers, product management, and UX, to become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.

Skills

Python

LangChain

LangSmith

Selenium

Playwright

pytest

Locust

Allure

CI/CD

API testing

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Lead SDET to own test strategy, design scalable automation, and advance AI-driven product workflows. You will champion UI/API testing with Selenium, Playwright, and Locust, while guiding a cross‑functional agile team.

The role emphasizes strong Python engineering, LangChain/LangSmith expertise, and the ability to translate production issues into robust regression coverage, with CI/CD participation and performance testing.