Senior Quality Engineer - AI-Driven Test Automation

8 West Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

8 West Consulting is seeking a senior, hands-on Quality Engineer to deliver dependable testing and practical automation improvements on enterprise client projects across the US. You will own quality activities, replace manual regression checks with automation, and apply AI-assisted methods to improve test design and data.

You will write automation, create test data, investigate defects and support releases yourself, planning improvements and sharing techniques with colleagues.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on contribution to moving manual testing towards automation.
• Able to code, debug and maintain production test suites across multiple languages.
• Experience across UI, API, integration, data and regression testing using modern tools.
• Experience testing .NET, SQL Server and Azure applications with DevOps practices.
• Applied AI/LLM tools to generate/validate tests and data, with safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Own project quality: plan and execute functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing; investigate defects and support releases.
• Automate within live projects: prioritize high-value registrations and maintain automation without compromising delivery.
• Build and maintain test solutions: write, debug, maintain UI/API/integration/data tests and integrate into pipelines.
• Engineer reliable test data: create deterministic data and automate setup, isolation and cleanup.
• Apply AI in testing: use AI to derive scenarios, generate tests, inspect changes and protect data.
• Improve project feedback: collaborate with developers on testability, environments and reporting.
• Communicate clearly: explain risks, coverage, priorities and progress to stakeholders.
• Introduce practical improvements: assess practices, test changes and share effective approaches.
• Apply enterprise controls: maintain test evidence and safe handling of client information including AI tools.

Skills

Hands-on test engineering

Automation development

AI-assisted testing

CI/CD experience

Test data creation

Communication and collaboration

Project planning

Azure DevOps experience

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Postman

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

8 West Consulting is seeking a senior, hands-on Quality Engineer to deliver dependable testing and practical automation improvements on enterprise client projects across the US. You will own quality activities, replace manual regression checks with automation, and apply AI-assisted methods to improve test design and data.

You will write automation, create test data, investigate defects and support releases yourself, planning improvements and sharing techniques with colleagues.