Role Name: Senior QE Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Type of hire: Contract
JOB DESCRIPTION:
About ORBIT
Client is Farmers spec driven SDLC platform an agent first system where the specification is the single source of truth and downstream artifacts are generated from it not described by it It spans Requirements authoring Test Data Management CodeGen and the QE test harness on a common platform built on three pillars agent first input flexible and deterministic Deployed on ROSA with Snowflake as the data platform and Portkey as the AI gateway
Senior Engineer QE Test Execution Harness
The QE harness today is an IDE resident tool the seven commands story discover generate validate heal promote stability run where the engineer sits driven by hand This role owns moving it into a first-class ORBIT service server side on ROSA invoked via API and events wired into the end-to-end flow The IDE stays as one entry point not the only one
Responsibilities
- Rearchitect the harness for headless multitenant execution durable orchestration queued and scheduled runs
- Wire it into the E2E spine Requirements Spec Record CodeGen test generation execution promotion
- Integrate with TDMs two-lane architecture and the Repo Knowledge Plane
- Instrument telemetry flake detection and stability scoring that gate promotion
Requirements
- 8 years software engineering recent platform backend work
- Demonstrated experience replat forming an IDE bound tool into a shared service core to the role
- Strong Python and or TypeScript API design event driven orchestration
- Test automation depth Gherkin BDD Playwright or Selenium CI integration
- Agentic LLM frameworks LangGraph CrewAI Strands with deterministic control around probabilistic components
- Kubernetes OpenShift ROSA a plus Snowflake AI gateway patterns
- LLM cost awareness token economics as a design constraint
- Nice to have TDM or synthetic data pipeline ownership brownfield sequencing insurance domain