AI Augmented QA Engineer
HybridRosedale, Southland, New Zealand
Job Summary
Build and maintain AI-orchestrated testing frameworks in Python and Playwright to serve as a force multiplier across all engineering pods. Transform feature specs into comprehensive test plans using AI tools while hunting for obscure edge cases, hallucinated logic, and compliance gaps. Perform manual and exploratory testing where automated coverage is missing, and design load-testing infrastructure to simulate high-throughput scenarios for translation APIs. Identify security gaps in AI-generated code and build automated detection into the shared quality layer. Develop a central repository of reusable test assets to prevent reinventing the wheel. This fixed-term role accelerates delivery by making high-quality shipping the path of least resistance.
Required Qualifications
- AI as a daily tool: You already use AI in your workflow – coding assistants, test generation, prompt engineering.
- The Irony of AI: You understand that AI can generate tests that pass without actually covering failure modes. You have the intuition to catch these 'false positives'.
- Automated Generation: Experience using AI to generate test plans, edge case scenarios, and automation scripts, coupled with the technical depth to verify their validity.
- Testing Fundamentals: You understand test strategy, test design, coverage and risk – not just how to write a test script.
- Python Proficiency: You can write and maintain test automation, scripts and frameworks in Python.
- Tooling: Experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, or similar) and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Failure Pattern Recognition: Knowledge of where AI-generated code commonly stumbles: security boundaries, data validation, and overconfident logic.
- Self Directed: You figure things out, ask good questions, and don't wait for someone to hand you a process
- Cross-Team Fluency: This role is shared across engineering pods with different contexts and cadences. You manage that without being managed.
- Prevention over Detection: You don't just find bugs; you design systems that prevent them from being written in the first place.
- Speed + Rigor: You are comfortable working at the intersection of velocity and discipline, understanding that in 2026, you cannot have one without the other.
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with load testing and performance testing tools
- Exposure to compliance and security testing patterns (GDPR, data handling)
- Additional languages beyond Python (TypeScript, JavaScript)
- Background in localisation, language technology, or NLP-adjacent domains
- Experience in smaller, fast-moving companies where you wear multiple hats
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