Senior Tester

Diverse Agile Solutions; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Diverse Agile Solutions in Albany, NY seeks a Senior Tester to validate the UI Job Assist Tool integrations, APIs, MCP services, and AI-enabled data exchanges across the core UI system and the Job Assist Tool.

You will design and execute functional/integration tests, verify REST APIs, Java microservices, data integrity, and security in a regulated UI environment, collaborating with engineers and subject-matter experts to ensure reliable, scalable performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant testing experience in enterprise web apps and distributed systems.
• Experience validating REST APIs, microservices, and data integrity.
• Ability to work independently and guide others in testing practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional and integration test scenarios for the AI-enabled UI Job Assist Tool.
• Test read/write REST APIs and Java microservices that exchange data between core UI and Job Assist Tool.
• Validate MCP servers, clients, tool invocation, and error conditions.
• Verify business rules and data-integrity controls for AI-generated data.
• Execute end-to-end tests across APIs, microservices, MCP, and AI integrations.
• Create and maintain test cases, data, traceability, and defect records.
• Use API testing tools to validate endpoints, schemas, authentication, and responses.
• Query backend data stores to confirm processing and persistence.
• Collaborate with engineers and SMEs to investigate defects and clarify expected behavior.
• Support performance and scalability testing for workloads up to ~1,500 concurrent users.

Skills

Functional testing

Integration testing

REST APIs

Java microservices

SQL data validation

API testing tools

AI-enabled testing

MCP testing

Performance testing

Security testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

JMeter

Job description

Location: Albany, New York (Hybrid)

Employment type: Contract

Position Overview

Diverse Agile Solutions is seeking a Senior Tester to support the UI Job Assist Tool (JAT), an initiative to develop and integrate secure APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services between the core UI system of record and an AI-enabled Job Assist Tool. This role will validate functional, integration, API, microservice, AI-tool, and MCP behavior to ensure reliable and secure read/write data exchange.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional and integration test scenarios for the AI-enabled UI Job Assist Tool.
• Test read/write REST APIs and Java microservices that exchange data between the core UI system and the Job Assist Tool.
• Validate MCP servers, clients, tool invocation, request/response handling, and error conditions.
• Verify business rules and data-integrity controls that prevent corrupt or unapproved AI-generated data from being written to the UI system.
• Execute positive, negative, boundary, regression, and end-to-end tests across APIs, microservices, MCP components, and AI integrations.
• Create and maintain test cases, test data, traceability, defect records, and execution results.
• Use API testing tools to validate REST endpoints, payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and response behavior.
• Query backend data stores as needed to confirm processing and persistence.
• Collaborate with programmers, data architects, cloud engineers, vendor technical teams, and business subject matter experts to investigate defects and clarify expected behavior.
• Support performance and scalability testing for workloads of approximately 1,500 concurrent users and document-heavy processing.
• Validate security-sensitive integration behavior in a regulated UI environment and support knowledge transfer to State staff.

Required Qualifications

• 60–84 months of relevant experience. The successful candidate can work independently, provide guidance to others, and may have advanced education.

Preferred Qualifications

• 60 months of experience performing functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of enterprise web applications and distributed systems.
• 36 months of experience testing REST APIs and microservices, including request/response payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and backend data validation.
• 36 months of experience testing Java-based enterprise applications or services and using SQL to validate backend processing and data integrity.
• 12 months of experience testing or validating AI-enabled applications or integrations, including functional validation of AI outputs and data exchanged with systems of record.
• 12 months of experience validating MCP servers, clients, tools, or integrations, including expected and error-path behavior.
• 24 months of experience using API/service testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, or comparable tools.
• 24 months of experience creating test plans, test cases, traceability, defect documentation, and test execution summaries in an Agile delivery environment.

Compensation

$52,300–$56,600 annually, equivalent to approximately $25.14–$27.21 per hour, depending on qualifications and experience.