[Remote] QA Engineer- SDET, AI-Driven Test Automation

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advanced Tech Placement is seeking a QA Engineer- SDET to join their team.

The role focuses on building AI-driven test automation across the product suite, particularly for payment and billing flows, treating quality as a software problem and leveraging AI for solutions.

Responsibilities Design, build, and own test automation frameworks for web UI (Playwright preferred) and APIs (REST, contract tests at service boundaries)Build integration and e2e coverage for payment-critical flows.

Hosted and iframe-embedded payment pages, merchant onboarding, webhooks, recurring billing, refunds, and reconciliationCover multiple payment rails and regions including Cards with 3DS, ACH and eCheck in the US, PAD / ACSS debit in Canada, and surcharging rules that differ by card typeOwn test data management, including seeding, isolation, teardown, and realistic finance scenariosTest feature-flag and entitlement matrices to ensure coverage across different regions, brands, processor routing, and package tiersWire quality gates into CI/CD (TeamCity, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable, deterministic suitesTrack and drive down flake to maintain a reliable test suiteUse AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot to generate test cases, scaffold suites, refactor brittle tests, and analyze failuresBuild AI-assisted workflows for test generation from acceptance criteriaEvaluate and adopt AI-native testing approachesShift quality left by reviewing acceptance criteria for testability before development startsDefine test strategy with the pod and own regression, E2E, and UAT cycles that gate payment releasesBuild observability into the test layer to ensure failures are self-explanatoryContribute performance and load baselines for payment endpoints and monitor for regressions Skills 4 years as an SDET, automation engineer, or quality-focused software engineerStrong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with C# as a strong plusDeep, hands-on Playwright experienceSolid API testing experienceComfort testing third-party embedded UIWorking SQL skills to verify data state in SQL ServerCI/CD fluency, with experience building or owning pipelinesDaily use of AI coding assistants for test workCuriosity about agentic and AI-native testingJudgment about where AI output needs human reviewExperience testing payment, billing, fintech, or other correctness-critical systemsUnderstanding of idempotency, race conditions, and async workflowsRisk-based thinking to determine what to automate, explore manually, and skipStrong communication skills for clear bug reports, test plans, and failure analysesExperience with performance and load testing tools (k6, Gatling, JMeter)Familiarity with visual regression tooling and accessibility testing (axe, WCAG)Experience with Docker, AWS, and testing against containerized environmentsExperience with Jira-driven workflows and acceptance-criteria-based deliveryPrior work in a pod or squad model embedded with developers Company Overview Advanced Tech Placement is a staffing and recruiting company.

It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://advancedtechplacement.com. Apply To This Job