AI Test Engineer

Mid-Level AI Software Test Engineer

We are seeking a Mid-Level AI Software Test Engineer to design, automate, and execute testing strategies for AI-powered applications, machine learning systems, AI agents, copilots, and generative AI solutions. This role combines traditional software quality engineering with emerging AI validation techniques to ensure AI systems are reliable, safe, accurate, performant, and production-ready. The ideal candidate has a strong software testing background, experience building automated test frameworks, and an interest in AI technologies such as LLMs, agents, RAG systems, MCP integrations, and machine learning models.

AI engineering organizations increasingly emphasize AI evaluation frameworks, automation, reliability, governance, and production quality, making testing a critical function in AI delivery.

• Develop comprehensive testing strategies for AI applications, platforms, and services.
• Validate AI model outputs for accuracy, consistency, reliability, and safety.
• Design and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance tests for AI solutions.
• Create test cases for prompt-driven, agentic, and retrieval-based AI workflows.
• Validate AI guardrails, business rules, permissions, and governance controls.
• Perform adversarial, negative, and edge-case testing to identify model failures and hallucinations.

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for AI applications.
• Develop automated evaluation pipelines for AI responses and workflows.
• Integrate AI testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automated quality scoring and regression detection.
• Create reusable test data, mocks, simulators, and validation frameworks.

• Test AI agents, workflows, APIs, MCP integrations, and tool-calling capabilities.
• Validate integrations with external systems, data sources, and enterprise services.
• Verify performance, reliability, scalability, and resiliency of AI workloads.
• Execute load and stress testing for AI services.

• Partner with software engineers, AI engineers, product owners, architects, and security teams.
• Participate in design reviews and provide quality feedback during development.
• Contribute to test strategy, quality standards, and best practices.
• Support production readiness reviews and defect triage activities.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3–6 years of software testing, QA automation, or quality engineering experience.
• Experience developing automated test solutions using:
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript/Type Script
• C#
• Experience with API testing and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of:
• Test automation
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Agile methodologies
• CI/CD pipelines
• Experience testing distributed systems, web applications, and APIs.

• Prompt Testing
• Response Evaluation
• Hallucination Detection
• Agent Workflow Validation
• RAG Validation
• AI Safety Testing
• AI Regression Testing
• AI Benchmarking

• Test Automation
• API Testing
• Integration Testing
• Performance Testing
• Load Testing
• Security Testing
• Defect Analysis
• Root Cause Investigation

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Postman
• JUnit / Py Test
• Git Hub Actions
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Establishes reliable automated AI testing coverage.
• Detects AI quality issues before production deployment.
• Reduces regression defects across AI releases.
• Improves confidence in AI model and agent behavior.
• Enables safe, scalable delivery of AI-powered features.
• Ensures AI solutions meet quality, security, and governance requirements.

• Testing AI chat assistants and copilots
• Validating MCP tools and AI agent workflows
• Evaluating RAG search quality and grounding accuracy
• Automating AI response evaluation frameworks
• Testing AI-powered trading assistants and workflow automation
• Performance testing AI services and orchestration platforms

Experience:

3–6 years software quality engineering, with 1–3 years exposure to AI/ML or Generative AI technologies.

• AI Software Test Engineer
• AI Quality Engineer
• Generative AI Test Engineer
• AI Automation Engineer
• AI Validation Engineer
• Software Engineer in Test (AI) (SDET-AI)

"Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."