
AI Automation Testing
HCLTech • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Role & seniority
- Vision AI QA Engineer Lead/Manager (lead/manage test strategy, automation, and release quality)
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Stack/tools
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Python; Selenium (also Cypress or equivalent)
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UI/API testing + REST validation (e.g., Postman)
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CI/CD pipeline test integration; smoke/regression/nightly/release gates
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Data/validation: SQL
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Performance/load testing: JMeter / LoadRunner (or equivalent)
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Security testing: OWASP ZAP, vulnerability assessment, secure SDLC
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AI/GenAI testing concepts: prompt workflows, response evaluation, grounding/hallucination checks
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Computer vision model testing (object detection/classification/tracking, metrics like Precision/Recall/F1/Accuracy)
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(Preferred) cloud-native/container environments, DevOps practices
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Top 3 responsibilities
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Own end-to-end QA for Vision AI platforms: UI, APIs, workflows, integrations, AI models, and production releases
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Define and implement test strategy/plan, regression suites, quality metrics, and release gates
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Build and maintain automated test frameworks and integrate them into CI/CD (smoke/regression/nightly/release validation)
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Must-have skills
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Strong QA fundamentals: test strategy/planning/design, defect triage, root-cause analysis, quality reporting
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Hands-on automation with Python + Selenium/Cypress
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Experience testing web apps, APIs, microservices; REST/auth/payload validation
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Solid *SQL
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Full Description
We are seeking a Vision AI QA Engineer lead/manager to design, validate, and automate testing for AI-powered platforms, including computer vision solutions, machine learning models, and GenAI/RAG applications. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of AI system behavior and apply robust quality engineering practices to ensure accuracy, reliability, performance, security, and production readiness across the end-to-end AI solution lifecycle. They will be responsible for developing test strategies, validating AI outcomes, automating test frameworks, and ensuring high-quality releases for Vision AI products.
Key responsibilities
- Own end-to-end quality assurance for Vision AI platforms and applications, covering UI, APIs, workflows, integrations, AI models, and production releases.
- Define and implement test strategies, test plans, regression suites, quality metrics, and release gates for Vision AI solutions.
- Execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory, system, and user acceptance testing across the application stack.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, and backend services using tools such as Python, Selenium, and AI testing frameworks.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable smoke, regression, nightly, and release validation.
- Validate computer vision models and pipelines, including image/video ingestion, object detection, classification, tracking, and event/alert generation.
- Design, curate, and maintain test datasets and benchmark scenarios to evaluate model accuracy, performance, robustness, and edge cases.
- Conduct AI model validation and regression testing using performance metrics, baselines, and real-world datasets.
- Verify the reliability and consistency of GenAI-powered capabilities, including prompt workflows, reasoning, and AI-assisted automation features.
- Perform performance, scalability, and reliability testing for real-time Vision AI services, ensuring required throughput, latency, and system stability.
- Lead security testing activities, including vulnerability assessment, threat validation, adversarial testing, and secure deployment verification for AI applications.
- Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, quality reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with engineering, product, and DevOps teams.
- Ensure Vision AI solutions meet quality, security, compliance, and production-readiness standards before release.
Skills
- Strong foundation in Quality Assurance principles, including test strategy, test planning, test design, defect management, and root-cause analysis.
- Hands-on experience in test automation using Python and industry-standard frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent automation tools.
- Proven experience testing web applications, APIs, and microservices, including REST API validation, authentication workflows, and payload verification using tools such as Postman.
- Good understanding of databases and SQL, with the ability to query and validate data across application and AI workflows.
- Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines and supporting continuous quality validation.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML systems and methodologies for validating model accuracy, reliability, and performance.
- Experience testing GenAI and LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering workflows, multi-turn conversations, tool/function calling, and response evaluation.
- Knowledge of hallucination detection, grounding validation, response quality assessment, and safety testing for AI applications.
- Understanding of computer vision solutions and video analytics, including validation of object detection, classification, tracking, and common AI performance metrics such as Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and Accuracy.
- Experience designing and executing security testing using tools and methodologies such as OWASP ZAP, application security assessments, vulnerability validation, and secure SDLC practices.
- Hands-on experience with performance, scalability, and load testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or equivalent, ensuring AI platforms meet performance and reliability targets.
- Familiarity with cloud-native applications, containerized environments, and modern software development and DevOps practices is preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.