Quality Engineer: AI-Driven Test Automation in the Cloud

Trinnex; Brookings (SD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Quality Engineer with strong experience in modern test automation, cloud-based testing, and AI-assisted quality engineering.

You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests across APIs, web, mobile, and performance scenarios; integrate tests into CI/CD; mentor junior QA analysts.

This role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience; travel may be required and collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; travel may be required.
• 5 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites across API, web, mobile, and performance testing domains.
• Builds reusable test utilities, fixtures, and frameworks that improve reliability, reduce maintenance effort, support consistent test data, and reduce flakiness.
• Develops mobile test automation, including simulator and emulator execution, mobile authentication flows, API mocking strategies, and mobile CI/CD integration.
• Develops and applies AI‑assisted tooling, agents, and skills to support test review, debugging, documentation, automation maintenance, and developer productivity.
• Supports scalable cloud‑based load testing using Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and related infrastructure practices.
• Analyzes requirements, test results, defects, logs, traces, and performance metrics to identify risks, root causes, business impact, and opportunities for quality improvement.
• Integrates automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with effective reporting, parallel execution, environment management, and failure analysis.
• Establishes QA best practices, coding standards, documentation, and troubleshooting guidance for automation and cloud‑based testing.
• Reviews test automation pull requests and provides clear feedback on reliability, maintainability, and quality.
• Mentors junior QA analysts and collaborates with development, product, and operations teams to improve testing outcomes.
• Performs other duties as required.

Skills

Playwright

Maestro

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP / GKE

CI/CD

AI-assisted tooling

Debugging & logs

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Playwright

Maestro

Kubernetes

Docker

GKE

CI/CD

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Quality Engineer with strong experience in modern test automation, cloud-based testing, and AI-assisted quality engineering.

You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests across APIs, web, mobile, and performance scenarios; integrate tests into CI/CD; mentor junior QA analysts.

This role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience; travel may be required and collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.