Senior AI Automation Test Engineer

ASSYST is seeking a Senior AI Automation Test Engineer in Washington D.C. (Remote role).

This role involves modern test automation engineering with a strong emphasis on AI‑driven quality assurance. At its core, it combines traditional automation expertise with cutting‑edge AI capabilities to make testing faster, smarter, and more effective.

Key Responsibilities:

Test Automation:

• Utilize AI technologies to accelerate test case creation, test data generation, automation development, and test maintenance.
• Leverage Generative AI to improve testing efficiency, productivity, and quality outcomes.
• Implement AI-assisted defect analysis, root cause identification, and test impact analysis.
• Evaluate emerging AI testing capabilities and recommend innovative solutions to enhance quality engineering practices.
• Apache JMeter performance testing experience.

Test Automation Engineering:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks using Java and modern automation technologies.
• Develop automated functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and smoke test suites for web and enterprise applications.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Establish automation standards, best practices, and reusable testing components.
• Analyze test results and provide actionable recommendations to development teams.
• Continuously improve automation coverage and testing effectiveness.

API Testing & Quality Engineering:

• Design and automate testing solutions for APIs, services, and microservices-based applications.
• Develop and execute automated API test suites using Postman, Rest Assured, or similar tools.
• Validate functionality, integration points, authentication, authorization, and data integrity.
• Support functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing activities.
• Ensure quality across all layers of the application architecture.

Other Relevant Experiences required.

• Minimum of 7 to 10 Years of Experience as an Automation Test Engineer
• Experience developing automation frameworks and test solutions using Java.
• Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and modern web automation tools.
• Experience creating and maintaining API collections, test scripts, and automated validations using Postman.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices-based applications.
• Familiarity with SQL databases and data validation techniques.
• Experience working with source control systems and Agile development methodologies.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate test automation development, maintenance, and analysis.

ASSYST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.