AI Test Engineer
Merrifield, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22118, USA
Listed on 2026-10-22
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Software Development
AI QA / Validation Engineer, Software Testing, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), AI Reliability/ Performance Engineer
Title: AI Test Engineer
Location: Remote (ET Hours)
Duration: Initial 6 Month Contract with Potential Extensions
Compensation: $55 - $61.50/HR
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S
Will serve as the primary hands-on contributor responsible for building the AI testing framework, developing automated AI evaluations, validating AI-enabled products, and providing continuous quality insights that improve the reliability and effectiveness of AI solutions across our Dev Ex portfolio.
We are seeking a highly motivated AI Test Engineer to help establish and scale our AI testing and evaluation capability. This role will work closely with AI engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to build automated testing frameworks, evaluate AI-driven solutions, and ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of AI-enabled products.
The AI Test Engineer will be hands-on contributors responsible for creating automated tests, executing evaluations against AI systems, analyzing model outputs, and helping define best practices for AI quality assurance. This role requires a strong combination of software testing expertise, automation engineering, data analysis, and an understanding of modern AI and generative AI technologies.
Key Responsibilities:- Help design, develop, and maintain AI testing and evaluation frameworks for generative AI, predictive AI, and AI-powered developer experience (Dev Ex) solutions.
- Create and execute automated test suites that validate AI model behavior, output quality, accuracy, reliability, and performance.
- Develop automated evaluation pipelines that integrate with CI/CD workflows and support continuous AI quality validation.
- Perform functional, regression, performance, and scenario-based testing of AI-enabled applications and services.
- Analyze AI-generated outputs to identify defects, inconsistencies, hallucinations, bias, performance issues, and other quality concerns.
- Build and maintain test datasets, benchmark scenarios, prompt libraries, and evaluation artifacts used to assess AI systems.
- Collaborate with software engineers, AI engineers, and platform teams to improve model quality and testing coverage.
- Define, measure, and report AI quality metrics such as accuracy, relevance, latency, consistency, robustness, and user satisfaction.
- Support root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and validation activities for AI-related defects and incidents.
- Document test strategies, test results, evaluation methodologies, and recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to AI governance and responsible AI efforts by supporting evaluation activities related to reliability, fairness, transparency, and safety.
- Support delivery of strategic Dev Ex initiatives and AI-enabled platform capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test automation, or AI/ML testing.
- Experience designing and executing automated test strategies for complex software applications.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python.
- Experience building automated test frameworks and test pipelines.
- Experience working with APIs, automated integration testing, and CI/CD environments.
- Understanding of machine learning, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), or AI-powered applications.
- Experience performing data validation, test result analysis, and defect investigation.
- Familiarity with modern testing methodologies, quality engineering practices, and software delivery life cycles.
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and evaluation techniques used to…
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