Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• Contribute improvements to products, processes, documentation, and QA best practice
• Troubleshoot and analyze application and third-party partner defects in the testing and production environment
• Develop Java JUnit classes and suites to verify RESTful microservice features at the unit, integration, and end-to-end testing levels
• Use purpose-built test harnesses with custom code as needed to test integration with complex third-party behaviors
• Contribute to automated tests of owned features for load, performance and sanity testing purposes
• Perform QA and Dev code reviews with peers
• Troubleshoot QA and Dev code, write effective stories and bugs, and work them to conclusion in an Agile team environment
• Work closely with developers and adjacent Dev/QA teams during appropriate stages of projects and participate in all phases of the scrum process
• Support DevOps team members in launching products on our customer environments
• Participate in off-hours production deployments on infrequent basis with reasonably advance notice

Required Skills:

• Technical Expertise: Proficient in Python, Java, or similar languages with hands-on experience in large language models (LLMs) is required. Experience in Automation in LLM product development with function calling, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), VLLM, and fine-tuning models. Knowledge of QA tools like Allure, Report Portal is strong plus.
• Education: Bachelor's in computer science, Engineering, or related field; master’s or Ph.D. is a bonus.
• Experience: 3+ years of software engineering experience, especially in AI, cloud, or machine learning environments.
• Skills: Knowledge of standard QA techniques such as fault management, smoke testing, regression testing, feature testing, load and performance testing, etc. Experience writing test plans and test cases for enterprise solutions
• Additional Qualifications: Excellent collaboration, mentoring, and communication skills, with a track record of delivering high-performance software solutions. Experience working on an Agile development team with rapid iterations
   

Preferred Skills:

• IntelliJ or Eclipse or similar programming IDE
• Experience working in automated build environment
• Deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Puppet, or similar tools and frameworks
• Linux or public cloud network troubleshooting skills - Experience testing large scale multi-tier web-based application
• Proficiency in writing modular scripts, executing tools, and editing documents