Senior Qa Test Analyst Ai Integration

Local candidates only

Provide a short description of the Position:

The position supports the UI Job Assist Tool (JAT), an initiative to develop and integrate secure APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services between the core UI system of record and an AI-enabled Job Assist Tool. The Senior Tester will perform functional, integration, API, microservice, AI-tool, and MCP validation to ensure reliable and secure read/write data exchange.

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:

Develop and execute functional and integration test scenarios for the Al-enabled UI Job Assist Tool.
Test read/write REST APIs and Java microservices used to exchange data between the core UI system and the Job Assist Tool.
Perform Model Context Protocol (MCP) validation, including server/client interactions, tool invocation, request/response handling, and error conditions.
Validate business rules and data-integrity controls designed to prevent corrupt or unapproved Al-generated data from being written back to the UI system.
Execute positive, negative, boundary, regression, and end-to-end tests across APIs, microservices, MCP components, and Al integrations.
Create and maintain test cases, test data, traceability, defect documentation, and test execution results.
Use API testing tools to validate REST endpoints, payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and response behavior.
Query backend data stores as needed to confirm accurate processing and persistence of data.
Collaborate with Programmers, Data Architects, Cloud Engineers, vendor technical teams, and business SMEs to investigate defects and clarify expected behavior.
Support performance and scalability testing for workloads associated with approximately 1,500 concurrent users and document-heavy processing.
Validate security-sensitive integration behavior in a regulated UI environment and support knowledge transfer to State staff.