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