TN Visa Test Automation Engineer Jobs
Test Automation Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Engineer category, which requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field. Canadian citizens can enter at the port of entry without a cap; Mexican citizens apply through a U.S. consulate under the annual TN allocation.
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JOB SUMMARY
- The Quality Engineer, AI & Test Automation helps modernize BSWH’s quality approach by moving beyond traditional manual testing toward automation-first, engineering-integrated, and AI-enabled quality practices.
- This role designs, builds, executes, and maintains automated test suites, validation utilities, evaluation assets, and quality reporting that improve release confidence and speed of delivery across digital products, enterprise applications, and AI-enabled use cases.
- The role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data & Analytics, AI Foundation, Ontology, Security, Privacy, Clinical, Operations, and other delivery teams to define quality expectations early and embed quality practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- This role is expected to combine strong testing discipline with technical skills, including automation, API validation, data validation, CI/CD integration, quality metrics, defect triage, and emerging AI-enabled testing practices.
- The Quality Engineer, AI & Test Automation reports to the Director of Quality Engineering and helps establish reusable practices that support safe, reliable, efficient, and scalable delivery.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
Quality Engineering & Test Strategy
- Develop test strategies, test plans, acceptance criteria, and quality approaches for software and AI-enabled capabilities in partnership with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business stakeholders.
- Translate requirements, user stories, workflows, APIs, data dependencies, and operational expectations into clear test scenarios and quality validation plans.
- Identify quality risks early in the delivery lifecycle and recommend appropriate validation approaches, including automated, manual, exploratory, integration, regression, performance, accessibility, or AI-specific evaluation methods.
- Provide clear release-readiness input based on test evidence, defect trends, quality metrics, risk assessment, and stakeholder expectations.
Test Automation & Engineering Practices
- Design, build, maintain, and improve automated test suites for API, UI, integration, end-to-end, regression, data, and workflow validation.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows so quality signals are available earlier and more consistently throughout the development lifecycle.
- Create reusable test data, utilities, fixtures, scripts, and automation patterns that can be used across multiple teams and products.
- Improve test reliability, maintainability, execution time, coverage, and signal-to-noise ratio by reducing brittle scripts and eliminating repetitive manual validation where practical.
AI-Enabled Testing & Evaluation
- Support testing and evaluation of AI-enabled experiences, including agent workflows, generated responses, retrieval behavior, tool/API calls, escalation paths, guardrail behavior, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Help define evaluation datasets, expected behaviors, failure modes, scoring rubrics, regression scenarios, and quality thresholds for AI-enabled capabilities.
- Use AI-enabled testing tools where appropriate to generate test cases, analyze logs, triage defects, identify coverage gaps, summarize results, and accelerate quality workflows.
- Partner with AI Quality, Architecture, Engineering, and Product teams to validate that AI-enabled capabilities are useful, reliable, explainable enough for the use case, and aligned to defined quality expectations.
Defect Management, Root Cause & Continuous Improvement
- Identify, document, reproduce, triage, and communicate defects with sufficient technical detail to support efficient resolution by engineering teams.
- Analyze defect patterns, escaped defects, quality trends, release issues, and production feedback to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve testability, observability, logging, error handling, and diagnostic capabilities across applications and AI-enabled workflows.
- Contribute to retrospectives, quality reviews, and process improvements that reduce rework, improve release confidence, and increase delivery velocity.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Release Readiness
- Work closely with Product Managers, Senior AI Product Managers, Software Engineers, AI Engineers, Data Product Owners, Architects, Designers, Clinical and Operational stakeholders, and vendors/partners to align on quality expectations and release readiness.
- Ensure quality criteria are embedded in requirements, design reviews, backlog refinement, development, testing, implementation, and post-release monitoring.
- Support production validation, monitoring handoffs, post-release assessment, incident follow-up, and quality reporting for assigned products and use cases.
- Communicate quality status, risks, defects, test results, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Quality Standards, Documentation & Enablement
- Create and maintain test documentation, automation standards, quality playbooks, release-readiness checklists, defect triage practices, and reusable testing patterns.
- Help teams adopt automation-first and AI-enabled quality practices while clarifying where manual validation remains necessary due to risk, ambiguity, or workflow complexity.
- Share knowledge with other quality, product, engineering, and business stakeholders to raise BSWH’s overall quality engineering capability.
- Stay current on modern testing approaches, automation frameworks, AI evaluation practices, test data management, observability, and quality engineering methods.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain meaningful automated tests rather than relying primarily on late-stage manual testing.
- Strong technical judgment across API testing, UI testing, integration testing, data validation, regression testing, defect triage, CI/CD integration, and release readiness.
- Ability to test AI-enabled systems where behavior may be probabilistic, workflow-dependent, or context-sensitive rather than purely deterministic.
- Ability to use AI-enabled productivity tools responsibly to improve test generation, analysis, defect triage, and quality reporting while maintaining human judgment over release quality.
- Strong collaboration with product and engineering teams to define quality expectations early and build quality into delivery practices rather than inspect quality at the end.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to explain quality risks, evidence, tradeoffs, and release recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in a regulated or high-trust environment where safety, privacy, security, compliance, auditability, and customer trust are critical.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following:
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical field.
- Equivalent combination of education and relevant technical experience may be considered.
Experience
- 5–8+ years of experience in quality engineering, software testing, test automation, SDET, software engineering, AI quality, or related technology delivery roles.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing automated tests for APIs, web or mobile applications, workflows, data validation, integrations, or end-to-end product experiences.
- Experience working with engineering teams in agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, or modern product-delivery environments.
- Experience with defect triage, root-cause analysis, test evidence documentation, release readiness, and quality metrics.
- Exposure to AI-enabled products, machine learning systems, large language models, conversational experiences, agentic workflows, automation, or decision-support technologies preferred.
- Healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or other regulated-industry experience preferred but not required.
Required Technical Expertise
- Strong understanding of software testing concepts, including test design, test coverage, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, data validation, exploratory testing, and release validation.
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, scripting, test data, CI/CD integration, and defect management tools.
- Ability to validate APIs, backend services, user interfaces, data flows, workflows, and enterprise integrations.
- Programming, scripting, or data analysis skills, preferably Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, SQL, or comparable languages used to build or maintain automated test assets.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled testing and evaluation concepts, including prompt/response validation, model-output evaluation, RAG or retrieval testing, agent workflow testing, hallucination risk, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Ability to use logs, traces, telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, test artifacts, and production feedback to investigate quality issues.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Quality Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, Software Quality Engineer, AI Quality Engineer, or similar technically oriented quality role.
- Experience building or maintaining automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, PyTest, Postman/Newman, JUnit, TestNG, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience testing AI agents, copilots, chatbots, LLM-powered applications, workflow automation, RAG systems, tool-calling workflows, or other AI-enabled capabilities.
- Experience creating evaluation suites, golden datasets, scoring rubrics, regression tests, synthetic test data, or quality dashboards for AI-enabled systems.
- Experience with cloud, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, data platforms, analytics, observability tools, or modern application architectures.
- Experience supporting quality engineering transformation, reducing manual testing dependence, or introducing AI-enabled testing practices into product teams.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Test Automation Engineer
Verify your degree supports the TN engineer category
TN visa classification for Test Automation Engineers depends on a qualifying degree in engineering or computer science, not years of experience alone. A degree in an unrelated field can trigger a denial even with strong technical credentials, so confirm the match before applying.
Target employers with recent visa filing experience
Employers with recent visa filings for software or systems engineering roles demonstrate experience with work visa sponsorship. Filtering for companies in roles similar to SOC code 15-1253 helps identify employers who have sponsored technical positions before, suggesting familiarity with visa-sponsored hiring processes.
Frame your role around engineering, not testing
Job titles that emphasize QA or testing without engineering language can raise classification questions at the border or consulate. Ask your prospective employer to structure the offer letter around software engineering responsibilities and degree requirements explicitly.
Get your offer letter TN-ready before filing
USCIS and CBP both require an offer letter that specifies your title, duties, start date, and that a bachelor's degree in a qualifying field is required. Missing or vague language in this document is the most common reason TN petitions stall or get questioned.
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Filter by TN visa eligibility to find Test Automation Engineer openings at employers already set up to sponsor. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where the sponsorship path is confirmed, so you're not cold-applying to companies unfamiliar with the TN process.
Prepare for port-of-entry review if you're Canadian
Canadian citizens don't need a visa stamp, but CBP officers adjudicate TN status on the spot at the border. Bring a printed copy of your offer letter, degree credentials, and any supporting technical documentation showing the engineering scope of your role.
Test Automation Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Test Automation Engineer qualify for TN visa status?
Yes, Test Automation Engineer qualifies under the TN Engineer category when the role requires and the applicant holds a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a closely related field. The classification depends on how the role is defined in the offer letter, not the job title alone. Roles framed primarily around QA functions without clear engineering duties can face scrutiny.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Test Automation Engineers?
TN has no lottery, no annual cap for Canadians, and no lengthy USCIS adjudication wait. H-1B visa requires surviving a random lottery, a multi-month petition process, and a specific start date. For Canadian and Mexican professionals already holding a qualifying engineering degree, TN is generally faster to obtain and simpler for the employer to process, with no registration fees or cap-subject filing windows.
Where can I find Test Automation Engineer jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for Test Automation Engineer roles at employers who sponsor TN visas, so you're not guessing about which companies are open to the process. Most general job boards don't filter by visa type or distinguish between employers familiar with TN versus those who only know H-1B, which wastes time during your search.
What documents does my employer need to provide for my TN application?
Your employer must provide a signed offer letter that includes your job title, a description of duties demonstrating the engineering scope of the role, your start date, and a statement that the position requires a bachelor's degree in a qualifying field. For Canadian citizens applying at the port of entry, no I-129 petition is filed in advance. For Mexican citizens, the employer's support letter is submitted as part of the consular application package.
Can I change employers on TN status without losing my authorization?
You can change employers, but TN status is employer-specific and does not automatically transfer. Canadian citizens can apply for a new TN at the port of entry with a new offer letter from the new employer. Mexican citizens must apply at a U.S. consulate before starting with the new employer. Working for a new employer before the new TN is granted puts you out of status.