Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

 

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

 

What you will be doing?

 

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a QA Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies test automation basics, advanced testing techniques, performance testing, and Agile methodologies; uses tools like Selenium and JMeter.

• Work & Complexity: Designs and executes complex test cases, analyzes defects, develops automation scripts, and collects/report metrics.

• Quality & Independence: Conducts thorough testing, maintains consistency, seeks process improvements, and works independently on routine tasks.

• Teamwork & Communication: Participates in team projects, shares best practices, coordinates with other teams, and mentors juniors.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises on test strategies, analyzes defects, suggests process improvements, and mentors junior testers.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a QA Automation Engineer.

Project Summary

We are looking for an QA Automation Engineer and who is expert in writing automation test cases in C#, has solid experience with modern automation frameworks, and API/data testing. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in building scalable automation solutions, ensuring quality across applications, and supporting CI/CD-driven delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within an agile product team, partnering closely with software engineers, product owners, and architects to ensure quality is built into the solution from design through release.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and integration layers using clean maintainable automation code.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable continuous testing and fast feedback.
• Contribute to test strategy and test design, including defining test scenarios, edge cases, and acceptance criteria (Gherkin) aligned to user stories.
• Perform exploratory and targeted manual testing where appropriate to uncover highrisk or complex defects that automation alone may not cover.
• Collaborate in requirements review, design discussions, and code reviews to improve testability, reliability, and overall software quality.
• Maintain and enhance automation frameworks, test data, and test environments as the product evolves.
• Execute and support functional, integration, regression, and API testing, and support performance, reliability, and security testing efforts as needed.
• Analyse test results, track defects, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues to resolution.
• Communicate test status, quality metrics, and risks clearly and transparently to the broader product team.
• Act as a quality champion, promoting best practices in testing, automation, and engineering excellence.

Required For This Opportunity

• Solid C# knowledge; ability to write productionquality automation test cases.
• Handson experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Experience with modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress for UI automation (any of these is acceptable) AND Postman and/or Swagger for REST API testing
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, and integrated systems.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts, with handson experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for: User stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria, Test case management and defect tracking
• Comfortable working across a modern tech stack: React, .NET, PostgreSQL/SQL Server
• Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues and propose practical solutions.
• Exposure to containerized or cloudhosted environments (Azure) - Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills to gather appropriate data to diagnose the cause of a problem or to develop a solution.
• (Nice to have) Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or Kanban delivery models in fastchanging product environments.
• (Nice to have) Experience with performance, load, or security testing tools.
• (Nice to have) Prior experience influencing test strategy for large or complex enterprise systems.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $0-$0 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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