Senior QA Engineer New USA

Caylent, Inc.; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match up to 4%

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Equipment stipend

Annual learning stipend

Unlimited paid time off

10 paid holidays

Job summary

Caylent is seeking a Senior QA/Test Engineer specializing in Amazon Connect and contact center technology to design and execute comprehensive test strategies across flows, routing, IVR, and AI-driven agents. You will build manual and automated test suites spanning UI, API, and serverless backends, ensuring production readiness and incident triage.

You will lead UAT sessions, define quality metrics, and mentor junior QA engineers while partnering with development to shift testing left in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA/test engineering experience, including 1+ years testing contact center, CCaaS, or IVR/voice platforms

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test strategies for Amazon Connect implementations covering contact flows, routing logic, IVR/self-service, Cases/Tasks workflows, and Contact Lens configurations
• Build test plans that validate AI agent behavior: intent recognition accuracy, escalation paths, barge-in/fallback handling, hallucination guardrails, and multilingual/SSML voice interactions
• Validate legacy-to-Connect migrations (i.e. Avaya, Genesys, Connect, NICE) through parallel-run testing, flow conversion verification, and data migration validation
• Define and track quality metrics (defect density, test coverage, escape rate) and report on release readiness to delivery leads and customer stakeholders
• Build and maintain manual and automated test suites: Playwright E2E and API tests, Cypress, Selenium, integration tests against live Amazon Connect instances
• Validate serverless, event-driven backends (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, Kinesis) with integration and contract tests
• Execute phased rollout and cutover validation for live contact centers, where testing gaps translate directly into missed calls and customer impact
• Verify monitoring and alerting coverage (CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards) across voice, chat, tasks, queues, agents, Lambda, and AI agents prior to go-live
• Participate in production incident triage, reproducing defects and validating fixes across the contact center stack
• Perform security and compliance validation: least-privilege IAM checks, DevSecOps scan review, and encryption standard verification
• Partner with engineers during development to shift testing left: pairing on test design, reviewing acceptance criteria, and flagging risk areas early
• Run UAT sessions with customer stakeholders, triage findings, and drive defects to resolution ahead of production cutovers
• Contribute reusable test assets (automated suites, test data sets, QA checklists) back to the CXE practice
• Mentor junior QA engineers on contact center testing patterns and Caylent's quality standards

Skills

QA/testing

UAT facilitation

Mentoring

Quality strategy

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

API testing

Job description

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.

Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first.

We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

This role is a Senior QA/Test Engineer specializing in Amazon Connect and contact center technology, responsible for designing and executing comprehensive test strategies across contact flows, routing, IVR/self-service, and AI-driven conversational agents. They validate legacy-to-Connect migrations, build and maintain manual and automated test suites (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) spanning UI, API, and serverless backend components, and ensure production readiness through cutover validation, monitoring verification, and incident triage. Beyond hands-on testing, they partner with engineers to shift quality left, run UAT sessions with customer stakeholders, and contribute reusable test assets and mentorship to strengthen Caylent's contact center QA practice.

Your Assignment

• Design and execute test strategies for Amazon Connect implementations covering contact flows, routing logic, IVR/self-service, Cases/Tasks workflows, and Contact Lens configurations
• Build test plans that validate AI agent behavior: intent recognition accuracy, escalation paths, barge-in/fallback handling, hallucination guardrails, and multilingual/SSML voice interactions
• Validate legacy-to-Connect migrations (i.e. Avaya, Genesys, Connect, NICE) through parallel-run testing, flow conversion verification, and data migration validation
• Define and track quality metrics (defect density, test coverage, escape rate) and report on release readiness to delivery leads and customer stakeholders

Manual, Automated & Full-Stack Testing

• Build and maintain manual and automated test suites: Playwright E2E and API tests, Cypress, Selenium, integration tests against live Amazon Connect instances, and end-to-end tests of Amazon connect call flows.
• Validate serverless, event-driven backends (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, Kinesis) with integration and contract tests

Production Readiness & Operations

• Execute phased rollout and cutover validation for live contact centers, where testing gaps translate directly into missed calls and customer impact
• Verify monitoring and alerting coverage (CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards) across voice, chat, tasks, queues, agents, Lambda, and AI agents prior to go-live
• Participate in production incident triage, reproducing defects and validating fixes across the contact center stack
• Perform security and compliance validation: least-privilege IAM checks, DevSecOps scan review, and encryption standard verification
• Partner with engineers during development to shift testing left: pairing on test design, reviewing acceptance criteria, and flagging risk areas early
• Run UAT sessions with customer stakeholders, triage findings, and drive defects to resolution ahead of production cutovers
• Contribute reusable test assets (automated suites, test data sets, QA checklists) back to the CXE practice
• Mentor junior QA engineers on contact center testing patterns and Caylent's quality standards

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA/test engineering experience, including 1+ years testing contact center, CCaaS, or IVR/voice platforms
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Connect or a comparable CCaaS platform: contact flows, routing, Cases/Tasks, and reporting
• Proficiency with automated testing frameworks (Playwright E2E and API tests, Cypress, Selenium) for unit, integration, and E2E testing
• Experience testing serverless/event-driven AWS architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions)
• Working knowledge of conversational AI / voice testing considerations: intent accuracy, latency, fallback behavior
• Strong defect documentation and triage skills; comfortable running UAT sessions with business and technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and integrating automated tests into deployment workflow

Preferred Qualifications

• Contact center migration testing experience (i.e. Avaya, Genesys, Connect, NICE)
• Experience with AI observability/trace validation (agent spans, token/cost attribution) or accessibility engineering
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, or ML/Connect-relevant Specialty)
• Contact center operations fluency: Quality management, outbound compliance, and CX KPIs
• Consulting or client-delivery background
• Medical insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Dental and vision insurance
• Term disability and life insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment and office stipend
• Annual stipend for learning and development
• Unlimited paid time off
• 10 paid holidays

Base Salary Range:

The expected base salary range for this position is USD $95,000 - $119 ,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Additional Compensation Components:

In addition to the base salary, the compensation package may include bonuses, commissions, equity, and other incentives. The specific components will vary depending on the role and individual and/or company performance.

NOTE: We're unable to provide visa sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

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