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Agentic AI Developer

SSTech LLCMcLean, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 22 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers exciting opportunities to shape the future of AI-driven test automation and develop reusable patterns that will impact multiple teams. You'll thrive here if you're a mid-senior developer passionate about building innovative solutions and contributing to a forward-thinking technology company. Apply today to leverage your skills and grow your career!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Position Title: Agentic AI Developer
Location: McLean, VA
Duration: Long Term Contract

1) Agentic test automation foundation (reusable patterns + reference implementations):

  • Design and implement agentic testing patterns that can be adopted by multiple Underwriting teams (and later other domains).
  • Create reference implementations (sample repos / templates) demonstrating:
  • Test generation assistance (from requirements, APIs, contracts, schemas).
  • Test maintenance assistance (auto-updating selectors/contracts, flaky test triage).
  • Failure analysis assistance (root cause suggestions, log correlation, defect drafting).
  • Establish a standard architecture for test code organization, tagging, data management, and execution across UI + API + service layers.

2) Coverage standards, templates, and governance

  • Define and publish coverage standards (what “good” looks like) including:
  • Minimum coverage expectations by service/component
  • Test type mix (unit vs API vs UI vs contract vs integration)
  • Risk-based prioritization and traceability to requirements
  • Provide templates usable across teams:
  • Test plan templates
  • Test case/spec templates (Gherkin-style or equivalent)
  • Definition of Ready / Definition of Done quality checklists
  • Create a scalable tagging/metadata strategy (e.g., feature, service, risk, priority, data sensitivity) to support reporting and quality gates.

3) GenAI-assisted reporting and quality insights across microservices

  • Build automated reporting that aggregates test + service data across multiple microservices, such as:
  • Test execution results (Karate/Playwright + CI runs).
  • Service health signals (logs/metrics/traces if available).
  • Defect signals (issue tracker metadata if available).
  • Generate GenAI-driven summaries:
  • Release readiness narratives.
  • Failure clustering and trend analysis.
  • “What changed?” insights (commit/PR correlation).
  • Produce outputs consumable by engineering leadership and teams (dashboards, markdown summaries in PRs, artifacts in CI).

4) “Quality gates” via agents

  • Build automated review agents that evaluate user stories/requirements for minimum required clarity and data before development/testing starts:
  • Required fields present (acceptance criteria, testable outcomes, data needs, dependencies)
  • Ambiguity detection and missing edge cases
  • Data/privacy considerations and environment needs
  • Integrate gates into workflow (PR checks, issue templates, GitHub Actions) to reduce churn and rework.

Required Technical Skills (must-have):
GenAI / LLM + agentic development

  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents (tool-using, multi-step reasoning, guardrails).
  • Experience with prompting patterns, structured outputs (JSON schemas), evaluation, and reducing hallucinations.
  • Ability to design agent workflows for:
  • Test generation/augmentation
  • Requirements review and completeness validation
  • Report generation and summarization

GitHub platform + GHCP (Copilot) for engineering workflows

  • Strong proficiency with GitHub Copilot in day-to-day development.
  • Deep experience with GitHub platform capabilities:
  • GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines, reusable workflows, composite actions).
  • PR checks, branch protections, CODEOWNERS, templates.
  • Automation via GitHub APIs/webhooks (as needed).

Test automation engineering (framework expertise)

  • Advanced experience designing and implementing automation with:
  • Karate (API testing, contract-like checks, data-driven testing, mocks)
  • Playwright (UI automation, selectors strategy, parallelization, trace/video artifacts)
  • Strong understanding of test design and coverage:
  • Happy path scenarios.
  • Negative/validation scenarios.
  • Edge/boundary scenarios.
  • Data setup/teardown strategies and test isolation.

Cross-service reporting and data aggregation.

  • Proven ability to aggregate and normalize results from multiple microservices and multiple pipelines.
  • Experience producing actionable automated reports (trend analysis, failure clustering, service correlation).

Automated requirements review agents

  • Experience implementing automated checks that validate:
  • Acceptance criteria completeness.
  • Required test data and environment dependencies.
  • Non-functional requirements (performance, security, observability) when applicable.

Deliverables / What success looks like (for the posting).

  • A reusable agentic testing automation kit adopted by multiple teams.
  • Published coverage standards + templates and onboarding documentation.
  • A working GenAI-assisted reporting pipeline aggregating results across microservices.
  • Automated quality gates integrated into GitHub workflows that measurably reduce story churn.

Skills

Microservices
GitHub Actions
LLM
Playwright

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