AI Automation Quality Engineer
Harvard University9 hours ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design AI agents that analyze requirements, code, and documentation to generate functional, integration, regression, accessibility, and API test scenarios.
- Build RAG pipelines using Jira, Confluence, Git repositories, test suites, architecture documentation, API specifications, and defect history.
- Implement human review workflows and generate maintainable automated tests with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, pytest, or equivalent frameworks.
- Maintain regression suites, API tests, UI automation, performance validation, and CI/CD integration.
- Capture review feedback, production defects, and failed test patterns to improve prompts, retrieval, testing patterns, and agent performance.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, developers, architects, product owners, and DevOps engineers on AI-driven quality engineering standards and governance.
Requirements
- At least two years of post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
- At least 3 years of experience building automated test frameworks for enterprise web applications.
- Experience using AI coding assistants in real testing workflows, including generating, maintaining, or reviewing tests.
- Strong Python development experience and knowledge of test automation and quality engineering practices.
- Experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, pytest, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Jira, Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, SDLC, and STLC.
- Strong analytical ability to translate business requirements into automated quality strategies.
- Preferred: experience developing AI agents that generate code or software tests, testing Django or FastAPI applications, measuring test coverage, or working in higher education or enterprise ERP/student information systems.
- Preferred: completion of Harvard IT Academy foundational courses or an external equivalent.
Benefits
- Fully benefited, full-time Harvard University position funded through June 30, 2027, with possible renewal contingent on performance and continued funding.
- Fully remote work from a Harvard-registered state, with occasional on-site work potentially required at the department’s discretion.
- Generous paid time off, including parental leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on day one.
- Retirement plans with university contributions.
- Wellbeing and mental health resources, family and caregiver support, professional development with tuition assistance and reimbursement, commuter benefits, discounts, and campus perks.
- The position includes a 180-day orientation and review period.
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About Harvard University
Harvard University is a private research university that provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and conducts research across disciplines. Revenue from tuition, executive and online programs, research grants, and its endowment funds its schools and institutes, including Harvard Medical School and the Division of Medical Sciences. Founded in 1636 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it operates campus and enterprise IT systems supporting teaching, research, and administration.