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AI coach - QA
Sunrise Systems Inc
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Hybrid
- 19 hours ago
- AI
- Playwright
- MCP
- Scrum
- POS
- GCP
- Atlassian
- ACA
19 hours ago
Job ID :26-05142
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 06 months' contract
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Description:
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About the Role
Testing at CLIENT is about to shift significantly. Playwright + MCP is on the verge of going live, and the ambition is to rapidly expand AI-enabled testing across the organization — including cross-skilling Scrum Masters, RTEs, and POs into testing practices they've never formally owned. This role is the engine behind that expansion.
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The Testing Coach partners directly with CLIENT's internal Testing COE — a small team — to standardize automation suite design, validate quality and coverage, and enable a much broader set of people to meaningfully participate in QA without requiring them to become full-stack developers. Testing, as Cleitn noted, is more naturally approachable for non-developers. This role capitalizes on that.
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What You'll Own
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Playwright + MCP adoption
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- Accelerate adoption of Playwright + MCP as the go-live happens; be the expert in the room for questions, configurations, and failure modes.
- Build enablement content and hands-on exercises that bring developers and non-developers alike up to speed on AI-assisted testing with Playwright.
- Stay current with MCP updates and Playwright capabilities as they evolve — adjust curriculum in near real time.
Automation standardization
- Standardize automation suite design across teams so test quality doesn't depend on who wrote the tests
- Validate that automation coverage meets the right bar — not just that tests exist, but that they test the right things
- Partner with the internal Testing COE to extend their capacity without requiring a large internal headcount increase
Cross-skilling non-developers
- Enable Scrum Masters, RTEs, POs, and Client to understand, review, and validate AI-generated test suites — not to write them from scratch, but to not be helpless when they need to evaluate one.
- Design 'broken project' exercises and hands-on labs where non-developers can build comfort with testing concepts in an AI-augmented way .
- Establish what 'testing competency' looks like for roles that didn't previously own QA, and create a repeatable path to get there .
What We're Looking For
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Non-negotiables
- Senior QA automation expertise with direct, hands-on Playwright experience — not just awareness of it
- Has worked with or built MCP integrations in a testing context — or can credibly get there fast
- Effective educator: can scale knowledge across broad, mixed-skill cohorts including non-developers
- Strong enough technically to partner peer-to-peer with CLIENT Â Â 's Testing COE, not just teach above them
Ideal profile
- Background spanning both manual testing judgment and automation engineering — understands what makes a test suite trustworthy, not just passing .
- Experience enabling non-QA roles to participate meaningfully in testing workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted testing tooling and how LLMs change both test generation and test evaluation.
- GCP/cloud stack familiarity a plus; Atlassian ecosystem experience helpful
Entry point
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Testing is more intuitive for non-developers — this role gets to move faster on cross-skilling breadth than the Developer Track
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COE partner
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This role works alongside CLIENT   's internal Testing COE rather than building a net-new function — influence through collaboration, not authority
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Scope
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Narrower technically than the Developer Track (Playwright + MCP is the primary stack), but broader in audience — Scrum Masters through developers.
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Compensation:Â
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The hourly rate for this position is between $58.00- 63.00per hour.  Â
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].Â
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Benefits:Â
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Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.Â
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Contact:
Jaya Balaji: jayabalaji.s@sunrisesys.com | (732) 515-5373 | URL:www.sunrisesys.com
AI coach - QA · Sunrise Systems Inc