Ryan Young
Associate Consultant
Principal Engineer - AI Tester
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, England
Apply by 2 Oct 2025
£550 - £600 per day
Job Ref.: BH-55499
Job Description
Location - Cambridge
Hybrid working
Rate - £550-600
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform functional, performance, and security testing on cloud-native services deployed on Microsoft Azure.
- Design and implement automated test suites for APIs, service components, and AI pipelines.
- Automate the evaluation of AI system outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, and safety of responses.
- Collaborate with developers and data scientists to establish service-level quality metrics and observability hooks.
- Validate services against AI regulatory frameworks and ensure traceability, fairness, and robustness in outcomes.
- Participate in threat modelling and security validation of exposed APIs and AI services.
- Provide feedback early in the lifecycle to reduce defects and improve design.
- Mentor junior testers, encourage continuous learning, and contribute to a culture of innovation.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation techniques, output scoring, and validation frameworks.
- Understanding of key concepts such as prompt engineering, RAG, model orchestration, and hallucination detection.
- Experience in testing for accuracy, relevance, and consistency of AI model predictions/generations
- Defining Performance Metrics for AI services and testing for the same
- Awareness of AI safety, bias detection, and explainability techniques.
- Experience ensuring compliance with AI regulations and standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act).
- Strong belief in ethical AI practices, transparency, and end-user trust.
- 12+ years of experience in software testing, QA, or validation roles for cloud-native applications using Microsoft and .NET technologies.
- Proficient in designing automated testing frameworks
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized test environments.
- Strong understanding of API testing, performance profiling, and security testing (including OWASP top 10).
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex technical challenges and propose scalable solutions.
- Experience working in Agile teams and collaborating across global R&D locations
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior team members fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation