Job Description
Job Title: AI coach - QA
Job ID :26-05142
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 06 months' contract
Description:
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.
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.
What You'll Own
Playwright + MCP adoption
Automation standardization
Job ID :26-05142
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 06 months' contract
Description:
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.
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.
What You'll Own
Playwright + MCP adoption
- 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
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 '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
Testing is more intuitive for non-developers — this role gets to move faster on cross-skilling breadth than the Developer Track
COE partner
This role works alongside CLIENT 's internal Testing COE rather than building a net-new function — influence through collaboration, not authority
Scope
Narrower technically than the Developer Track (Playwright + MCP is the primary stack), but broader in audience — Scrum Masters through developers.
Compensation:
The hourly rate for this position is between $58.00- 63.00per hour.
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].
Benefits:
Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.
Contact:
Jaya Balaji: jayabalaji.s@sunrisesys.com | (732) 515-5373 | URL: www.sunrisesys.com
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $58–$63 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
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