Senior Staff AI QA Engineer — Agentic Test Automation Leader

Illumina

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 142,000 - 212,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Illumina in San Diego, CA is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction for quality engineering across enterprise platforms. You will design test architecture, lead the Tricentis Tosca, and build scalable agentic testing for regulated, GxP-relevant systems.

You will mentor 10–20 QA and automation engineers, collaborate with Data Engineering and business apps (SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, M365), and drive CI/CD quality gates and audit-ready evidence for Part 11

Qualifications

12+ years in software quality engineering with leadership experience.
5+ years hands-on Tricentis Tosca at enterprise scale.
Experience with SAP S/4HANA or ECC and Salesforce.
1+ year building or operating LLM-based or agentic testing in production.
Strong coding in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java or C#.
CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab or Jenkins.
Experience testing in regulated environments (GxP, medical device, SOX or similar) and producing audit-ready evidence.
Clear written and spoken communication with engineers, product owners and executives.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise test strategy across multiple platforms and tools.
Lead the Tricentis platform and define standards, libraries and roadmap.
Design and run multi-agent test workflows with clear approvals and audit trails.
Create evaluation frameworks for AI agents, including gold datasets and scoring.
Integrate Tricentis MCP and other tools under the Enterprise AI gateway.
Embed quality gates and risk scoring in CI/CD pipelines.
Mentor senior and staff engineers and grow QA practice across teams.