Senior AI Quality Engineer - SaaS Quality Leader

affinipay1; United States; Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

13 paid public holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Health insurance

Job summary

8am is seeking a Senior AI Quality Engineer to ensure the reliability and scalability of our SaaS platform. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to test complex workflows, validate data, and raise the bar for quality across the development lifecycle.

You’ll shape test strategy, mentor engineers, and own API and data pipeline validation, with a focus on secure, compliant integrations across our services.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of software quality engineering experience.
• Experience testing complex SaaS apps or distributed systems.
• Strong experience with API testing (REST, webhooks, or similar).
• Strong SQL skills for validating data and system state.
• Experience testing integrations, workflows, or data pipelines.
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or similar).
• Proficiency with Linux and command-line tools for debugging and log analysis.
• Familiarity with Python or Shell scripting.
• Experience with test management tools (TestRail, Qase).
• Experience working in Agile development environments.

Responsibilities

• Champion product quality across the development lifecycle.
• Design comprehensive test strategies for complex product features and platform services.
• Identify risks early and raise quality concerns before issues reach production.
• Write and maintain high-quality test cases covering real-world usage scenarios.
• Perform root cause analysis and clearly communicate the impact of defects.
• Validate APIs, integrations, and distributed services.
• Test data pipelines, system workflows, and multi-step product flows.
• Ensure correctness of integrations with third-party systems and internal services.
• Validate data integrity across relational systems and application workflows.
• Test security-sensitive functionality such as permissions, access control, and document sharing.
• Evaluate system performance, reliability, and edge-case behavior.
• Define and improve quality engineering standards and processes.
• Collaborate with developers and automation engineers to identify high-value automation opportunities.
• Contribute to test automation strategies across smoke, regression, and release validation.
• Track and report on quality metrics and help reduce production defects.
• Mentor and support junior quality engineers.
• Participate in design discussions to improve testability and reliability.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in quality practices for complex SaaS systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Skills

API testing

SQL

Python scripting

Test automation

Cloud testing AWS

Agile testing

Tools

TestRail

Qase

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

8am is seeking a Senior AI Quality Engineer to ensure the reliability and scalability of our SaaS platform. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to test complex workflows, validate data, and raise the bar for quality across the development lifecycle.

You’ll shape test strategy, mentor engineers, and own API and data pipeline validation, with a focus on secure, compliant integrations across our services.