Senior AI Quality & Reliability Engineer

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. in Chicago (and other sites) seeks a Senior AI Quality & Reliability Engineer to design and drive AI quality engineering across enterprise AI initiatives.

You will shape AI testing, validation, and observability, partnering with AI Engineering, Governance, Clinical, and Product teams to ensure safe, scalable deployments. The role combines hands-on quality engineering with leadership, mentoring, and adoption of modern testing practices, including AI-native testing, runtime

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Quality Engineering or related functions.
• 2+ years of technical leadership for testing initiatives or automation programs.
• Experience validating AI-powered applications, AI-enabled workflows, or ML systems preferred.
• Experience in healthcare technology or regulated industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute AI Quality Engineering strategies for AI-powered applications and enterprise AI platforms.
• Lead AI validation activities including functional testing, prompt validation, and release validation.
• Develop scalable AI testing frameworks, validation datasets, and quality scoring methodologies.
• Collaborate with AI Engineering, Governance, Data, Product, and Clinical teams to ensure responsible AI deployment.
• Establish runtime observability, monitoring, and reliability practices for AI-enabled systems.
• Mentor Quality Engineers and drive continuous improvement in testing modernization.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Test Automation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Advanced degree in CS/Engineering preferred

Job description

## Senior AI Quality & Reliability EngineerApply: Chicago, IL 60607: Irving, TX 75062 Vizient Corporate HQ: Edina, MN 55435: Full time: Posted Today: 35549RWhen you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.**Summary**In this role, you will drive the hands-on design, development, and execution of AI Quality Engineering initiatives supporting Vizient's enterprise AI transformation efforts. You will design and implement AI Quality Engineering practices, AI validation processes, AI-assisted testing approaches, runtime quality controls, and scalable testing frameworks that support the responsible deployment of AI-powered business solutions.This role combines hands-on quality engineering, AI-enabled testing modernization, healthcare workflow validation, technical mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. You will help advance Vizient's Quality Engineering capabilities beyond traditional software testing toward AI-native validation, AI-assisted testing, runtime observability, reliability engineering, and modern AI Quality Engineering practices.**Responsibilities*** Design, develop, and execute AI Quality Engineering strategies supporting AI-powered applications, large language model (LLM) solutions, intelligent automation, agentic systems, and enterprise AI platforms.* Build and implement scalable AI Quality Engineering practices, including AI-native testing approaches, validation processes, runtime quality controls, reusable testing accelerators, and automated testing frameworks.* Lead AI validation activities including functional testing, prompt validation, workflow testing, regression testing, release validation, runtime quality assurance, and production reliability support.* Partner with AI Engineering, AIOps, LLMOps, Security, Governance, Clinical, Data, and Product teams to deliver scalable AI Quality Engineering processes across enterprise AI initiatives.* Support runtime reliability through observability, telemetry, distributed tracing, monitoring, drift detection, incident response, and operational quality assurance for AI-enabled systems.* Develop and maintain AI evaluation frameworks, validation datasets, quality scoring methodologies, and automated testing workflows that improve the reliability and scalability of AI solutions.* Collaborate with Clinical, Operational, and Engineering stakeholders to validate healthcare workflows, payer operations, and AI-enabled business processes while supporting responsible AI deployment through human-in-the-loop validation practices.* Coordinate testing activities across Agile delivery teams, including sprint planning, test execution, defect management, issue tracking, release readiness, risk identification, and production support.* Mentor Quality Engineers and provide technical guidance that promotes engineering excellence, AI-enabled testing modernization, continuous improvement, and adoption of modern Quality Engineering practices.* Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging AI Quality Engineering, testing automation, observability, and runtime assurance technologies to continuously improve enterprise AI quality capabilities.**Qualifications*** Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field highly preferred. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science,* 5 or more years of experience in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, software testing, enterprise application delivery, technology operations, or related technology functions required.* 2 or more years of experience providing technical leadership for testing initiatives, automation programs, or enterprise technology delivery projects required.* Experience supporting Quality Engineering or Quality Assurance across enterprise platforms, APIs, healthcare applications, operational workflows, or integrated business systems required.* Strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, test automation frameworks, defect management, release validation, and production support processes required.* Experience validating AI-powered applications, intelligent automation, machine learning, large language model (LLM), or AI-enabled business workflows preferred.* Experience with AI Quality Engineering practices, AI-assisted testing, runtime observability, monitoring, telemetry, or reliability engineering preferred.* Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills required.* Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within fast-paced, highly collaborative enterprise environments required.* Experience in healthcare technology, payer operations, clinical workflows, or other regulated industries supporting AI governance and responsible AI deployment preferred.#LI-JB1**Estimated Hiring Range:**At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.