# Senior QA Engineer, AI & Automation **Company**: Backcountry **Location**: San Jose **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/cscgeneration-2/5a3fb9cb-6135-417c-93db-afd91b1bd7d5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5605cb52-92c ## Description Adventure is our Culture. Join a team that celebrates a lifestyle as bold as the terrain we love. At Backcountry, we are rooted in adventure, recognition, and wellbeing on and off the mountain. We spotlight employee stories, celebrate milestones, and offer exclusive outdoor perks. Whether you are at HQ, in a retail store, or remote, you will be part of a team that thrives on energy, exploration, and connection. ## What You'll Do ### Build AI-Accelerated Test Automation You will build and maintain scalable automation suites using Playwright across web, API, and mobile, contributing to broader QA frameworks and release validation standards. You will use AI coding assistants and agents to generate test plans, test cases, page objects, and test data from requirements, Jira stories, and PR diffs. You will review, validate, and harden every AI-generated test before it merges , you own the correctness of the suite regardless of what wrote the code. You will drive down flaky tests and maintenance cost through resilient locator strategies, AI-assisted self-healing, and automated failure triage. You will integrate automated quality gates into GitHub Actions CI/CD so every deploy is validated by the pipeline rather than by manual sign-off. You will build and maintain functional, regression, API, and performance/load testing coverage using tools like Postman, JMeter, or k6. ### Apply Testing Judgment Where It Matters You will determine what should be automated, what can be delegated to AI, and what requires human testing , balancing coverage, risk, and release timelines. You will perform focused exploratory testing on new features, UI/UX changes, and complex user flows to catch edge cases and usability issues that automation and AI miss. You will turn every escaped defect into an automated regression check so the suite strengthens with each release. You will partner with engineers to embed tests, API contract checks, and AI-assisted code review early in the SDLC to reduce downstream defect costs. You will help define how to test AI-powered customer experiences where outputs are non-deterministic and need evaluation rubrics rather than exact assertions. You will track and report quality metrics to show where automation is paying off. ### Contribute to a High-Performing Team You will collaborate with QA peers and engineering teams, sharing knowledge, best practices, and the AI prompts and workflows that work. You will provide input on quality practices and process improvements across the engineering org, focusing on reducing manual regression and UAT effort. You will support and mentor QA engineers on automation and responsible AI-assisted testing, fostering a culture of quality ownership. ## Required Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing, including 3+ years building and maintaining test automation that runs in CI/CD. - Proven, hands-on experience with Playwright for web and API E2E automation; Cypress or Selenium experience is a plus. - Strong automation fundamentals: ability to design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable test suites and frameworks, and to diagnose and eliminate flaky tests. - Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python (Java a plus); you write test code to the same standard as production code. - Hands-on, day-to-day use of AI coding tools to write, refactor, and debug test code, with the discipline to validate and correct AI-generated output. - Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including parallel execution, reporting, and quality gates. - Solid experience with functional, regression, API, and performance/load testing. - Strong exploratory testing skills and the judgment to build risk-based test strategies across automated, AI-assisted, and manual coverage. - Demonstrated SDLC and Agile experience with defect lifecycle management using Jira and TestRail. - Ability to operate effectively under a steady release cadence and manage competing priorities with minimal supervision. ## Preferred Qualifications - E-commerce QA automation experience, particularly in environments shipping frequently with CI/CD integration. - Experience building or adopting agentic testing workflows. - Experience testing AI/ML-powered features such as search, recommendations, or LLM-generated content, including evaluation of non-deterministic output. - Familiarity with BrowserStack or similar cloud device and browser grids. - Experience with observability tooling like Grafana or GCP-based infrastructure. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally. ## Why Join - Cross-Functional Impact: Your work touches every engineering team and every release , automation coverage and quality gates you build directly shape what ships to customers across web, mobile, and API. - AI-First Skill Building: You will work at the frontier of AI-assisted testing, using and evaluating emerging tools daily and building expertise that is defining the next generation of quality engineering. - End-to-End Ownership: You own the automation framework, the CI/CD quality gates, and the testing strategy , from choosing what to automate to deciding how to evaluate non-deterministic AI features. - Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands. ## Skills ### Required - Playwright - AI coding assistants - TypeScript/JavaScript - Python - CI/CD pipelines - Functional testing - Regression testing - API testing - Performance testing - Load testing - Exploratory testing - Risk-based testing - Jira - TestRail - Agile - SDLC ### Nice to have - E-commerce QA automation - Agentic testing workflows - AI/ML-powered features testing - BrowserStack - Observability tooling - Communication and collaboration --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/cscgeneration-2/5a3fb9cb-6135-417c-93db-afd91b1bd7d5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)