Senior Test Automation Engineer, AI-Native

ZEP

Test Automation Engineer tasked with building AI testing strategies for new product generations at a SaaS company. Collaborating closely with developers and performing end-to-end test automation using AI tools.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySenior💰 €60,000 - €70,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidCypressiOSJavaScriptLaravelMySQLPostgresVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate a modern, AI-assisted testing strategy for our next product generation (Laravel/Vue.js)
End-to-end test automation with Playwright or similar, including AI-assisted test case generation and self-healing tests
Quality assurance for our AI products: evaluation of LLM outputs, prompt testing, hallucination checks and behavioral tests for agentic workflows
Establish a testing pyramid with the developers (Unit, Integration, E2E) with tight integration into CI/CD
AI-assisted bug reproduction and root-cause analysis; translate customer tickets into reproducible tests
Close collaboration with developers, product managers and the Co-CEO

Requirements

What you’ll need

AI-native toolset (tools you actively use): test automation with Playwright, Cypress or comparable frameworks, ideally with AI code generation
Daily driver such as Claude or ChatGPT for test case generation, edge-case analysis and test code
Cursor or similar AI IDEs to quickly understand Vue.js and Laravel code and write appropriate tests
Ideally experience with LLM evaluation (Promptfoo, Braintrust, LangSmith or custom evaluation pipelines)
Understanding of MCP, agentic workflows or Custom GPTs and how to test these systematically
You understand the difference: you know when an AI-generated test is sufficient and when hands-on testing with precise assertions is required
Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Git and pull-request-driven workflows
Strong understanding of API testing (REST), databases (MySQL/Postgres) and web architectures. Mobile apps (iOS & Android) are a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full access to all AI tools you need (Claude Max, Cursor, Playwright, subscription of your choice)
30 days of vacation and permanent employment contracts
Remote-first company & flexible working hours — work from anywhere within Germany!
Regular workshops, workations and team-building events
Support for home-office setup, choice of laptop & monthly voucher for various benefits or gym memberships & company bike
The opportunities, freedom and influence of a startup combined with the security of a medium-sized company established for over 25 years

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Hard Skills & Tools

test automationPlaywrightCypressAI code generationAPI testingMySQLPostgresweb architecturesunit testingintegration testing

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingattention to detail