Senior AI QA Engineer - Automation & Strategy

Planet DDS; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Telehealth

401(k) and 401(k) match

Life and AD&D insurance

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Paid Time Off

11 paid holidays

Volunteer Time Off

Employee Referral program

Job summary

Planet DDS in Irvine, CA is seeking an AI-Powered QA Engineer IV to lead QA strategy for Team Artemis on a fast-moving SaaS platform. You will own automated, AI-assisted, and exploratory testing, guiding an outsourced QA partner toward an AI-native model while shaping quality standards across products.

The ideal candidate has 8–11 years in software QA, hands-on Playwright, and experience with Claude Code/Anthropic AI APIs. Healthcare or dental domain knowledge is a plus.

Qualifications

• 8-11 years of experience in software engineering development, test, and/or QA role.
• Track record using AI-powered software testing tools like Applitools, Testim, Mabl, TestRigor, TestComplete, UI-TARS, Midscene, and Puppeteer; strong hands-on Playwright experience for browser automation at scale is required.
• Experience in automation testing and building automation frameworks from the ground up using Playwright.
• Experience in programming (ideally JavaScript/TypeScript and/or C#).
• Experience with Jira & Zephyr Scale would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of how to characterize different risk scenarios (Examples: functional/closed-box, boundary, verification and validation, acceptance, load, stress, performance, HA/DR).
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to engage throughout the department and the company to achieve goals.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or Anthropic AI APIs, including writing prompts, custom agents, or agentic workflows for engineering or testing use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or technically influence a QA or engineering team, including offshore or outsourced teams; flexible, clear-communicating, and decisive under ambiguity.
• Experience working within large, cross-functional engineering teams with ownership of end-to-end automation coverage across complex, multi-product SaaS platforms is huge plus.
• Healthcare or dental industry domain knowledge is a strong plus; understanding of clinical workflows, compliance requirements (HIPAA), and data sensitivity in dental practice management software accelerates ramp-up significantly

Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA strategy and roadmap for Team Artemis, setting direction across automated testing, AI-assisted testing, and quality standards for the department
• Design, implement and maintain the automated testing framework for SaaS products.
• Mentor and train other team members on automation, quality practices and principles.
• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, effort estimates, task breakdowns, and other team discussions.
• Assess and raise risks across the Planet DDS solution.
• Work with the engineering team continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of Planet DDS products.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design and deploy new features.
• Learn about the latest tools and patterns consistent with your role.
• Lead, manage, and grow the outsourced QA team within Team Artemis, establishing clear standards, accountability, and a culture of quality across the extended team
• Architect and implement end-to-end test automation solutions using Playwright and Claude Code, covering smoke tests, regression suites, and full E2E workflows across Planet DDS SaaS products
• Drive adoption of AI-native testing practices across the engineering organization, including agentic test generation, AI-assisted defect triage, and Claude Code-based test automation workflows
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Claude Code-based test automation, programming and maintaining AI agents for test execution, coverage analysis, and quality reporting
• Collaborate across large, distributed engineering teams to ensure comprehensive end-to-end coverage of complex SaaS product workflows, from API layer through UI and integrations
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

QA engineering

Automation testing

Playwright

AI tooling

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

Claude Code

Playwright

Jira

Zephyr Scale

Job description

Planet DDS in Irvine, CA is seeking an AI-Powered QA Engineer IV to lead QA strategy for Team Artemis on a fast-moving SaaS platform. You will own automated, AI-assisted, and exploratory testing, guiding an outsourced QA partner toward an AI-native model while shaping quality standards across products.

The ideal candidate has 8–11 years in software QA, hands-on Playwright, and experience with Claude Code/Anthropic AI APIs. Healthcare or dental domain knowledge is a plus.