Senior QA Engineer - AI-Driven API & E2E Testing

Eleks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleks is seeking a Senior General Test Engineer to join the AI-first incident management team. You will own quality across the product, drive automation from API to frontend, and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and test scenarios.

In a greenfield environment, you’ll design and maintain automation frameworks, leverage AI for test design and generation, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines. Strong ownership and proactive communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software testing experience, including both manual and automated testing.
• Experience with AI/LLM tools in test automation and QA workflows.
• Ability to use AI for test design, test case generation, automation code generation, refactoring, debugging, and maintenance.
• Experience with API and end-to-end test automation using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks for API/backend testing.
• Experience defining quality strategy and QA processes in greenfield environments.
• Experience collaborating with engineers and product stakeholders to define feature specifications, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.
• Ability to extend automation coverage to frontend applications.
• Understanding of test architecture, mocking strategies, test data management.
• Experience developing and maintaining end-to-end automated tests and integrating them into CI/CD.
• Senior-level ownership of product quality, not just automation.
• Self-directed, proactive, and capable in greenfield with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Spanish – Advanced
• Upper-Intermediate English

Responsibilities

• Review, analyse and assess project requirements and specifications as well as product functionality to convert them into quality control process artefacts.
• Prepare and acquire test data
• Develop, execute, refactor and optimize automation scripts
• Log and evaluate results and document deviations from the expected results
• Use automation scripts administration, monitoring, and management tools
• Provide automation test environment setup
• Review test artefacts developed by others
• Contribute to automation process control definition and improvement
• Provide new automation tools or approaches investigation and implementation
• Communicate with a customer
• Implement and execute tests at all planned levels, log and evaluate results and document deviations from the expected results
• Contribute to general project quality assurance process
• Analyse/improve/establish test process on a project
• Analyse coverage for project test basis
• Define relevant metrics for project
• Define, prioritize and estimate needed Test Efforts
• Measure performance of components and systems (if applicable)

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

API testing

AI in testing

Test design

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

CI/CD

QA automation frameworks

Job description

Eleks is seeking a Senior General Test Engineer to join the AI-first incident management team. You will own quality across the product, drive automation from API to frontend, and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and test scenarios.

In a greenfield environment, you’ll design and maintain automation frameworks, leverage AI for test design and generation, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines. Strong ownership and proactive communication are essential.