Senior Quality Engineer: AI-Driven Automation & CI

Upshop; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Upshop is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to own quality, reliability, and performance through strong automation, leveraging AI as a force multiplier. You will build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage, contribute to the test strategy, and shift quality left with agents, RAG, and prompt engineering.

You will stay accountable for what these systems produce, advocate for quality, and challenge weak processes in a fast-paced engineering culture, delivering high-quality software for our SaaS

Qualifications

• Experience applying AI-assisted quality practices in fast-moving teams.
• Ability to design tests with AI agents and RAG workflows.
• Strong automation across API and UI tests.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement API/UI/test strategies for end-to-end coverage.
• Run suites, analyze failures, drive defects to close, keep pipelines trustworthy.
• Shift left: map criteria to API/Web/Mobile tests and avoid tests without evidence.
• Test traceability from design through automation; CI/release sources of truth.

Skills

AI test automation

Shift-left testing

Quality advocacy

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD automation

API/UI testing

RAG and prompt engineering

Job description

Upshop is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to own quality, reliability, and performance through strong automation, leveraging AI as a force multiplier. You will build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage, contribute to the test strategy, and shift quality left with agents, RAG, and prompt engineering.

You will stay accountable for what these systems produce, advocate for quality, and challenge weak processes in a fast-paced engineering culture, delivering high-quality software for our SaaS