Senior AI Quality Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Champion product quality: advocate for the customer experience throughout the development lifecycle
• ▹Design comprehensive test strategies for complex product features and platform services
• ▹Identify risks early and raise quality concerns before issues reach production
• ▹Write and maintain high-quality test cases covering real-world usage scenarios
• ▹Perform root cause analysis and clearly communicate the impact of defects
• ▹Validate APIs, integrations and distributed services
• ▹Test data pipelines, system workflows and multi-step product flows
• ▹Ensure correctness of integrations with third-party and internal services, and validate data integrity across relational systems
• ▹Test security-sensitive functionality such as permissions, access control and document sharing
• ▹Evaluate system performance, reliability and edge-case behavior
• ▹Help define and improve quality engineering standards and processes, and identify high-value automation opportunities with developers and automation engineers
• ▹Contribute to test automation strategies across smoke, regression and release validation
• ▹Track and report on quality metrics and help reduce production defects
• ▹Mentor junior quality engineers and join design discussions to improve testability and reliability

Requirements

• ▹3-7 years of experience in software quality engineering
• ▹Experience testing complex SaaS applications or distributed systems
• ▹Strong experience with API testing (REST, webhooks or similar)
• ▹Strong SQL skills for validating data and system state
• ▹Experience testing integrations, workflows or data pipelines
• ▹Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or similar)
• ▹Proficiency with Linux and command-line tools for debugging and log analysis
• ▹Familiarity with Python, Shell or similar scripting languages
• ▹Experience with test management tools (TestRail, Qase or similar)
• ▹Experience working in Agile development environments

Nice to have

• ▹Experience testing AI or machine learning systems
• ▹Experience testing payment platforms or financial integrations
• ▹Experience with CRM or workflow-driven SaaS applications
• ▹Experience with microservices architectures
• ▹Familiarity with containerization or Kubernetes
• ▹Experience testing systems that handle sensitive or regulated data
• ▹Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, etc.)

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future and employee referral rewards
• ▹Flexible time off and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• ▹Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system
• ▹Maternity, paternity and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave
• ▹Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension and work accident coverage

About the company

8am (formerly AffiniPay), founded in 2005, is a business platform for legal, accounting and other client-focused professionals. Its payment, client experience and operational solutions are used by more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S.