Software Engineer - Test Automation & QA at Luma AI
Luma AI · Palo Alto, United States Of America · Onsite
- Senior
- Office in Palo Alto
About Luma Al
Luma's mission is to build multimodal Al to expand human imagination and capabilities. We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable, and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. We are working on training and scaling up foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.
Where You Come In
This is a foundational, zero-to-one opportunity to build the entire quality and test automation discipline at Luma from first principles. As our first dedicated Test Engineer, you will be the gatekeeper of product excellence, responsible for architecting the frameworks, pipelines, and culture that ensure our generative Al products are reliable, performant, and delightful for millions of users. This isn't about maintaining legacy test suites; it's about defining what "quality" means for a frontier Al product and building the systems to enforce it.
What You'll Do
Architect and Build: Design, build, and own Luma's end-to-end test automation framework from scratch, with a focus on frontend (UI) and backend (API) testing using modern tools like Playwright.
Own the CI/CD Quality Pipeline: Integrate comprehensive automated testing into our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, creating the systems that provide automated signals for deployments and rollbacks.
Champion End-to-End Quality: Go beyond unit tests to develop and execute comprehensive test plans covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.
Embed with Product & Research: Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and researchers to understand user-facing features, define test requirements, and reproduce complex issues.
Define Quality as a Culture: Establish and enforce best practices for testing, bug-tracking, and quality metrics, mentoring the engineering team, and eventually building out a dedicated test function.
Who You Are
You have 5+ years of experience in software testing, including at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
You are an expert in modern test automation tools, with extensive, hands-on experience in frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
You have deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with specific expertise in integrating test automation using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
You have a strong background in API testing using frameworks like pytest or tools like Postman.
You are proficient in Python and/or JavaScript, with a history of writing code to build test frameworks and automation scripts.
You possess a product-focused and user-centric mindset, with experience testing user journeys like payments, logins, and signups.
What Sets You Apart (Bonus Points)
Early-stage startup experience where you built test infrastructure from the ground up.
A career path that includes time as a backend or full-stack software engineer before specializing in test automation.
Hands-on experience with performance testing frameworks (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner) and security testing tools.
