Quality Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY

We are hiring a Quality Engineer to help shape how quality is engineered in an AI-driven development environment.  Quality Engineers at Wellspring operate with a high degree of autonomy and technical ownership, with meaningful cross-team influence. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to remain hands-on, technically deep, and influential in shaping modern, AI-driven quality practices.

What You'll Do

Automated Quality Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites using Playwright

• Develop and maintain performance and load tests using JMeter

• Create reusable test utilities, data strategies, and scalable testing patterns

• Build and curate the shared foundation that AI-assisted authoring depends on so generated tests come out consistent

• Keep the suite healthy as authoring volume increases

AI-Driven Quality Practices

• Use AI-assisted tools to generate, refine, and maintain test cases, and test data

• Direct coding agents through the full authoring loop providing context and reviewing output

• Review generated tests with a critical eye for the ways they fail quietly

• Use AI to find coverage gaps and propose edge cases, then apply your own judgment about which ones carry real risk

• Use AI-assisted triage as a first pass on failures, separating likely regressions from flakes

• Apply self-healing and auto-repair tooling deliberately, with guardrails, recognizing that a test which silently repairs itself can mask a genuine product regression

• Apply risk-based testing to focus effort on business-critical and defect-prone areas

• Validate AI-enabled product behavior for correctness, reliability, and unintended outcomes

• Feed recurring defect and failure patterns back into shared context and conventions so the same class of miss does not recur

CI/CD & Engineering Integration

• Integrate automated tests into GitHub Actions–based CI/CD pipelines

• Partner with Engineering and DevOps to improve pipeline quality gates

• Manage test scope and execution sequencing to balance coverage, risk, and feedback time

• Write tests and failure output that are legible to agents as well as engineers

• Ensure quality gates hold as change volume increases, so higher delivery throughput does not quietly become higher-confidence mistakes

Quality Leadership & Collaboration

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to clarify requirements and identify quality risks early

• Propose and drive solutions to technical and testing challenges with cross-functional partners

• Help establish team standards for AI-driven test authoring

• Document and communicate testing strategies, tradeoffs, and outcomes

What We're Looking For

Required Experience & Skills

• Experience as a Quality Engineer, SDET, or Test Automation Engineer on production systems

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (UI and API testing)

• Experience with performance and load testing using JMeter or similar tools

• Solid programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, Java, or Python

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions

• Working knowledge of modern architectures, including web applications, APIs, and cloud-based systems

• Demonstrated, sustained daily use of at least one modern AI-assisted development tool

• Ability to critically review AI-generated tests and code — identifying shallow coverage, incorrect assumptions, and plausible-looking output that does not hold up

Ways You'll Stand Out

• Experience testing AI-enabled or data-driven systems

• Experience designing automation frameworks or shared testing infrastructure

• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, or quality metrics beyond pass/fail testing

• Experience building evaluation harnesses or test strategies for non-deterministic systems

• Experience structuring context for AI tooling — prompt design, retrieval, or packaging codebase and domain knowledge for code and test generation

• A point of view on where AI-assisted testing genuinely helps