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Posted Jun 26, 2026

[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 reconciliation • Cover 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 type • Own test data management, including seeding, isolation, teardown, and realistic finance scenarios • Test feature-flag and entitlement matrices to ensure coverage across different regions, brands, processor routing, and package tiers • Wire quality gates into CI/CD (TeamCity, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable, deterministic suites • Track and drive down flake to maintain a reliable test suite • Use AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot to generate test cases, scaffold suites, refactor brittle tests, and analyze failures • Build AI-assisted workflows for test generation from acceptance criteria • Evaluate and adopt AI-native testing approaches • Shift quality left by reviewing acceptance criteria for testability before development starts • Define test strategy with the pod and own regression, E2E, and UAT cycles that gate payment releases • Build observability into the test layer to ensure failures are self-explanatory • Contribute performance and load baselines for payment endpoints and monitor for regressions Skills • 4 years as an SDET, automation engineer, or quality-focused software engineer • Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with C# as a strong plus • Deep, hands-on Playwright experience • Solid API testing experience • Comfort testing third-party embedded UI • Working SQL skills to verify data state in SQL Server • CI/CD fluency, with experience building or owning pipelines • Daily use of AI coding assistants for test work • Curiosity about agentic and AI-native testing • Judgment about where AI output needs human review • Experience testing payment, billing, fintech, or other correctness-critical systems • Understanding of idempotency, race conditions, and async workflows • Risk-based thinking to determine what to automate, explore manually, and skip • Strong communication skills for clear bug reports, test plans, and failure analyses • Experience 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 environments • Experience with Jira-driven workflows and acceptance-criteria-based delivery • Prior 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