QA Engineer, AI Platform

Snapshot

You are a Quality Assurance Engineer with a real passion for ensuring quality and a dedicated can-do attitude to overcoming technical and process challenges. To succeed in this role you will have professional experience in quality assurance including a strong foundation in building and maintaining automated testing frameworks. You will possess a solid understanding of software development lifecycles and have hands-on experience developing quality-focused tools and infrastructure to ensure the delivery of high-quality robust solutions.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were a team of scientists engineers machine learning experts and more working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery and collaborate with others on critical challenges ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

Our Engineering and Research teams build a wide range of products and platformsfrom internal tools that accelerate our research to cutting-edge AI systems that are deployed to millions of users. Quality is paramount to our success and our QA Engineers are critical partners in the development process ensuring our technology is robust reliable and ready for real-world impact.

The Role

As a QA Engineer you will join a highly collaborative team of QA experts. This role is vital in ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems directly impacting cutting-edge AI research and development. Your technical abilities and expertise in quality assurance will be crucial in developing quality-focused tools and infrastructure and in collaborating with development teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality robust solutions.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineers product managers and researchers to understand requirements and define comprehensive quality and testing strategies.
• Design develop and maintain robust and scalable test automation frameworks for UI API and system-level testing.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide continuous feedback to development teams.
• Perform manual testing for exploratory usability and edge-case scenarios where appropriate.
• Identify document and track bugs through to resolution and run bug triage meetings.
• Define and report on key quality metrics to provide a clear picture of product health and release readiness.

About You

In order to set you up for success as a QA Engineer at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience as a QA Engineer Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or similar technical quality role.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language (e.g. Python C C# or Java).
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks (e.g. Pytest Selenium Playwright XCUITest).
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins Google Cloud Build) and version control (e.g. Git).
• A real passion for building tools and improving processes to enhance QA workflow and developer productivity.
• The ability to thrive and adapt in a rapidly changing highly-agile research and development environment.
• Are proactive in identifying critical problems and generating and driving solutions.

In addition the following would be an advantage:

• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP AWS Azure).
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
• Experience with performance load or security testing.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts or experience testing AI/ML systems.

At Google DeepMind we value diversity of experience knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.