QE AI Lead Engineer

The team you'll be working with:As a QE AI Engineer & QE Architect, you will have the opportunity of joining an award winning Quality Engineering team that is working on some of the most cutting edge technologies that is embracing new innovations, such as in built quality checks that embraces AI/GenAI & agentic AI across the full SDLC. What is key to this role is the ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
What you'll be doing:This is a hands on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC not just test automation and QE. You will lead the expansion of our existing portfolio of Quality Engineering assets and services. Having strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders is a must.
You will join a highly focused quality engineering team that are experts in driving a AI & agentic AI engineering led approach to driving value for our clients. You are responsible to ensure Shift-Left Testing emphasising early testing in the development lifecycle. You will have experience of multiple Automation Frameworks that support various types of testing. You will play a key role as an AI mentor and train your team on the latest testing tools and methodologies.
You will always look for ways to drive SDLC efficiencies and to improve the quality engineering approach. You will have knowledge on capturing the value created through defining and tracking quality metrics.
What experience you'll bring:Extensive experience as a Senior QE SDET Engineer or Senior DeveloperHas breadth of experience across different tech-stacks, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or Python, amongst othersExperienced in RAG Weaviate, OpenAI, Agents, MCP, Langchain, Prompt Engineering, Browser-Use, and DjangoExperienced building AI Tools, Agents and Agentic workflows (LangGraph, CrwAI)Hands-on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC
- not just test automation and QE.
Experienced in building RAG system with a nice-to-have on fine-tuning LLMsCleaning/augmenting dataComfortable with IAS (Infra As Code) eg. giving a high-level specFully understands test automation (across platforms and functional/non-functional) and associated techPresentation skills
- C-Suite clients and in-houseMentoring
- non-AI SDETsInnovation
- art of the possibleExperienced in Junit, Jest, PyTest, NUnit, Appium, WDIO, Selenium, Cypress, BrowserStack, Swagger, WireMock, Postman et alDevelopment frameworks: Spring, Angular, .
NET, Node et alCI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker/AWS, Azure DevOpsDatabases: SqlServer, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, H2BDD: Cucumber, FitNesse, SpecFlow, RestAssured, EasyB et alPerformance: Gatling, JMeter, WebPageTest, LightHouseSecurity & code quality: SonarQube, Jacoco, PiTest, OWASP, Axe et alHands on software test automation, ideally founded on a background as a senior DeveloperExperienced in building a strategy covering all aspects of the SDLC process, development, automation, CI, and metricsHands on using Spring Java, Angular, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Junit, Jest, Cucumber, Bash, Gatling et alExperienced in helping teams evolve an Agile ‘Shift Left’ way of workingExperience of building advanced and feature rich test automation frameworks from scratch using Object-oriented and scripted languages  Has a depth of knowledge in the Object-oriented Programming paradigm (OOP) and has practically applied the principles  Comfortable working with Git repositories and workflows on multiple tasks concurrently  Ability to manage and lead code review processes, mitigate conflicts within the team and get quality work merged in the main branch Proactively collaborate with the Front-end development team, understand the design of the Front-end and discussing issues with the developers to better understand requirements and expectations  Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process  Understanding of non-functional requirements and testing, with a focus on performance (but also accessibility, compatibility and aspects of security)Nice to haveMCP, Django and nice-to-have Entra/GunicornGitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins (any experience on these will be beneficial)AWS experience  Experience with any of these tools: Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io (but with strong experience in Selenium)Understanding (better experience) with Contract Testing frameworks (preferably PACT)Experience setting up E2E testing frameworks with automation in mind, covering all the aspects of the SDLCWho we are:At NTT DATA, you have endless opportunities to think big, act bold and take ownership. As a $30+ billion business and technology services, AI and digital infrastructure leader, we co-innovate solutions with clients and partners globally for business and societal impact. Serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100, with experts in over 70 countries, we encourage experimentation and reco