AI Automation Engineer - Contract W2 Position

Job Title: AI Automation Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Month s Contract

Job Description:
Responsibilities:

• Design and develop Codex-driven testing and automation frameworks for first-party applications.
• Build reusable AI automation skills, prompts, workflows, agents, utilities, and framework components that can be consistently applied across application teams.
• Establish a scalable automation foundation covering UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop automation solutions using Python and modern testing frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, and PyTest.

Apply AI-assisted development techniques to accelerate:

• Test case generation.
• Test script creation.
• Code generation and refactoring.
• Test-data generation.
• Failure analysis and debugging.
• Automation maintenance.
• Create reusable libraries, patterns, templates, and standards instead of application-specific one-off automation.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Develop API automation using REST-based services and appropriate testing libraries/frameworks.
• Define framework architecture, coding standards, reusable modules, logging, reporting, configuration management, and exception-handling patterns.
• Improve automation reliability by addressing flaky tests, execution failures, synchronization issues, and environment dependencies.
• Build effective validation and guardrail mechanisms around AI-generated code and test assets.
• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, architects, product teams, and DevOps teams to identify high-value automation opportunities.
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance on AI-driven automation engineering practices.
• Maintain technical documentation covering automation architecture, reusable skills, framework standards, and implementation guidelines.
• Automation engineer building Codex-driven testing frameworks, repeatable skills, and automation foundations for the first-party application layer across the P2P landscape.