Senior AI QA Architect & Test Automation Leader

Vaco Recruiter Services

Birmingham (AL)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Discretionary bonuses

401(k) plan

Job summary

Vaco Recruiter Services in Birmingham, AL seeks a Senior Automation Testing Engineer to own the quality engineering and test automation for an AI-powered healthcare platform. This is an automation-first role focused on building scalable QA processes and test strategies.

The ideal candidate will design frameworks, lead a growing team, and implement AI-assisted testing across APIs, services, and voice workflows, elevating quality while collaborating with platform and integrations teams.

Qualifications

10+ years in software quality engineering with automation.
Experience designing automation frameworks from the ground up.
Expertise in automated testing architecture and harness design.
Experience building scalable QA processes and automation strategies.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted testing methodologies.
Proficiency with Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
Strong scripting, tooling, and automation development skills.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Ability to elevate quality standards across engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

Own the overall quality engineering vision and automation strategy for an AI-powered voice platform.
Design, build, and maintain a scalable automated testing infrastructure from the ground up.
Establish testing standards, best practices, and quality metrics across engineering teams.
Recruit, mentor, and eventually lead future QA and automation testing team members.
Help drive a culture of quality throughout the organization.
Design and implement automated testing frameworks for unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.
Build reusable test harnesses and tooling for engineers to create and execute tests.
Develop simulation frameworks for real-time voice and conversational AI workflows.
Create testing methodologies that scale with rapid product growth.
Partner with platform, provisioning, and integrations teams; test APIs, back-end services, and distributed systems.
Own test environments and CI/CD integration for automated execution; investigate production issues.