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# Lead Ai Engineer w/. Agentic Test Automation

- **Company:** Vsg Business Solutions
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Github, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Microsoft UI Automation, Data Driven Tests, SQL Databases, Test Data, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, Playwright, Virtual Agents, Webhooks, GPT, Microservices
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us90b56759a8fd7963d28365301db99aac

## About the Role

Looking for a hands-on Lead AI Engineer who can build LLM/agentic solutions specifically for test automation and engineering quality workflows. This is a development-heavy role, not a traditional QA/management position. Must-Have Skills

 * GenAI / LLM / Agentic AI

 * Hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents
 * Tool-using / multi-step agent workflows, guardrails
 * Prompting, structured JSON outputs, evaluation, hallucination reduction
 * AI for test generation, test maintenance, failure analysis, reporting, and requirements review
 * GitHub / GitHub Copilot

 * Strong GitHub Copilot experience
 * GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, composite actions
 * PR checks, branch protection, CODEOWNERS, GitHub APIs/webhooks
 * Test Automation - MUST HAVE

 * Karate API/contract/data-driven testing
 * Playwright UI automation, selectors, parallel execution, trace/video
 * Strong knowledge of API, UI, integration, contract and negative/edge-case testing
 * AI + Test Reporting

 * Aggregate test results across multiple microservices/pipelines
 * Failure clustering, trend analysis, root-cause suggestions
 * GenAI-generated release-readiness / quality reports
 * Quality/Requirements Agents

 * Build AI checks for acceptance criteria, missing requirements, test data, dependencies, edge cases
 * Integrate quality gates into GitHub/CI workflows, AI/Agentic Engineer + strong Test Automation Engineer - someone who has actually built AI agents and automation frameworks, not just used ChatGPT/Copilot.

## Description

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