Senior QA Engineer - AI-Driven Test Automation (Remote)

CSC Generation Enterprise; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Backcountry is seeking an automation-focused QA Engineer to build AI-accelerated test suites across web, API, and mobile platforms. You will leverage Playwright and AI coding assistants to generate tests from requirements, then harden and validate them before merging, reducing flaky tests and maintenance costs.

You will integrate automated gates in GitHub Actions, drive thorough exploratory testing, and partner with engineers to embed tests early in the SDLC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing, including 3+ years building and maintaining test automation that runs in CI/CD.
• Proven, hands-on experience with Playwright for web and API E2E automation; Cypress or Selenium experience is a plus.
• Strong automation fundamentals: design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable test suites and frameworks, and diagnose flaky tests.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python (Java a plus); write test code to production standards.
• Hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to write/refactor/test code and validate AI output.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Experience with functional, regression, API, and performance/load testing (Postman, JMeter, k6).
• Strong exploratory testing skills and risk-based testing strategies; SDLC/Agile with Jira/TestRail.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable automation suites across web, API, and mobile with Playwright.
• Use AI tools to generate test plans, cases, and data from requirements/Jira/PR diffs; validate AI output before merge.
• Reduce flaky tests and maintenance through resilient locators and AI-assisted self-healing.
• Integrate automated quality gates into GitHub Actions CI/CD for every deploy.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed tests, API checks, and AI-assisted reviews early in SDLC.
• Define automated vs AI-assisted vs manual testing coverage and report quality metrics.

Skills

Playwright

CI/CD

AI-assisted testing

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

Test automation design

Jira/TestRail

GitHub Actions

Postman/JMeter/k6

Exploratory testing

QA strategy

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

GitHub Actions

Postman

JMeter

k6

Job description

Backcountry is seeking an automation-focused QA Engineer to build AI-accelerated test suites across web, API, and mobile platforms. You will leverage Playwright and AI coding assistants to generate tests from requirements, then harden and validate them before merging, reducing flaky tests and maintenance costs.

You will integrate automated gates in GitHub Actions, drive thorough exploratory testing, and partner with engineers to embed tests early in the SDLC.