Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Role Summary

The AI-enabled Technical QA Engineer is responsible for ensuring production quality through automation, AI-assisted testing, production validation, and reliability engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Design and implement automated API test frameworks.
Develop production regression suites.
Validate production releases before and after deployment.
Use AI tools to generate test cases and improve test coverage.
Detect anomalies using logs, metrics, and production telemetry.
Validate event streams and business data.
Collaborate with engineering teams during production incidents.
Continuously improve quality engineering processes.

Required Skills

4–8 years of automation testing experience.
Strong API testing expertise.
Experience with automation frameworks.
SQL and data validation experience.
Knowledge of event-driven architectures.
Experience using AI-assisted testing tools.
Strong analytical and debugging skills.

As part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, every team member plays a critical role in maintaining the reliability and availability of our production systems.

This role supports a 24x7 production environment supporting business-critical applications.
All engineers are expected to participate in an on-call support rotation, including evenings, weekends, and public holidays as scheduled.
During on-call periods, you will be expected to respond to production incidents within defined response time objectives, troubleshoot issues, and work collaboratively to restore service as quickly as possible.
Candidates should be comfortable diagnosing complex production issues across applications, cloud infrastructure, databases, messaging systems, and integrations.
Participation in post-incident reviews, root cause analysis (RCA), and implementation of permanent corrective actions is an essential part of the role.
Team members are expected to continuously improve operational processes through automation, monitoring enhancements, and proactive reliability improvements to reduce recurring incidents.
Flexibility to collaborate with globally distributed teams, including occasional overlap with US business hours, is expected to support production operations and major releases.
A strong sense of ownership, accountability, and customer focus is essential, as ensuring platform stability and business continuity is a shared responsibility across the entire team.

Employee Type:

Permanent

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How we rate this

Software Engineer at UPS rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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