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Tekion

Posted 13 Oct 2026

Senior Software Development Test Engineer

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
13 Oct 2026

About the role

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:


Generative AI and LLM Evaluation:

  • Build automated testing suites to detect hallucinations, bias, toxicity, and prompt injection vulnerabilities across LLM-powered products
  • Implement automated evaluations for RAG systems measuring context relevance, groundedness, and answer faithfulness using frameworks like RAGAS or DeepEval
  • Design test beds to validate multi-agent workflows: tool-calling accuracy, multi-step reasoning, memory, and autonomous decision loops
  • Build and run automated conversation simulations: scripted and synthetic user journeys to stress-test agent behavior across intents, edge cases, and multi-turn dialog flows
  • Create prompt regression frameworks to assess how changes in system prompts, temperature, and sampling parameters impact output consistency


Data Quality Assurance:

  • Statistically validate AI data outputs: distributions, precision/recall, and error pattern analysis to catch silent data quality failures before production.
  • Programmatically audit data ingestion, transformation, and feature store pipelines for schema drift and data corruption.
  • Validate vector DB indexing, embedding semantic similarity accuracy, and retrieval latency.
  • Verify quality, diversity, and privacy compliance of synthetic datasets used for model training and evaluation.


Classical ML and Deep Learning Validation:

  • Maintain automated suites tracking ML metrics: precision, recall, F1, ROC-AUC, and deep learning loss curves across model versions.
  • Implement continuous monitoring scripts to detect data and concept drift on live inference endpoints.


Automation Engineering and CI/CD:

  • Build and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for APIs, backend services, and model endpoints.
  • Embed AI evaluation and data QA suites into MLOps and CI/CD pipelines so quality failures block releases automatically.
  • Define and track AI quality KPIs and communicate release readiness to engineering and product teams.


Requirements:

  • Experience of 5+ years.


Core Programming:

  • Python: expert level; test automation, eval pipelines, data analysis (Pandas, NumPy, Pytest).
  • SQL: data output validation, ground truth querying, and pipeline data quality checks.


GenAI and Evaluation:

  • RAGAS / TruLens / DeepEval / Promptflow, etc. LLM evaluation frameworks for measuring faithfulness, hallucination rate, and task success.
  • LangChain / LangSmith / LlamaIndex: agent workflow testing, prompt tracing, and LLM response debugging.
  • OpenAI / Anthropic / Hugging Face APIs: direct LLM endpoint testing and output consistency validation.
  • Vector DBs: retrieval quality testing, embedding validation, and latency benchmarking.
  • Pandas / NumPy, etc.statistical analysis for output validation and error pattern investigation, data profiling, schema validation, and pipeline integrity checks.


API and Automation:

  • Pytest: modular, reusable test framework for AI eval and automation suites.
  • Postman / REST Assured / Requests: API contract validation and service-level integration testing.


MLOps and CI/CD:

  • MLflow: tracking model versions and eval runs to detect regressions across updates.
  • Docker / GitHub Actions / Jenkins: containerized test environments and deployment pipeline automation.


Observability:

  • Grafana / Kibana / OpenTelemetry: monitoring AI system health, output drift, and distributed tracing across agent pipelines.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Cloud AI Services: AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or GCP Vertex AI for testing managed model endpoints and cloud-deployed agents.
  • MLOps Platforms: MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights and Biases, or Feast feature stores for experiment tracking and model governance.
  • ML Frameworks: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch familiarity for understanding model internals and validating training pipelines.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for managing containerized test environments at scale.
  • UI Automation: Playwright or Cypress for end-to-end conversational AI application testing.
  • Performance Engineering: Locust or JMeter for load testing heavy AI inference endpoints under peak traffic.
  • Statistical Hypothesis Testing: t-tests, confidence intervals, and significance testing to distinguish real quality signals from noise.
  • Synthetic Data Generation: using LLMs to generate diverse test cases and evaluation datasets at scale.

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