Location: Bangalore
About smallest.ai
smallest.ai is building next-generation AI infrastructure and voice technology to power intelligent products at scale. We work across speech, LLMs, and real-time AI systems, building tools developers and businesses rely on.
We're looking for an Automation QA Engineer to build and own our backend automation test suite. You'll work closely with engineers to ensure our APIs, services, and end-to-end workflows are reliable, scalable, and production-ready.
Build and maintain a scalable end-to-end automation test suite for backend services
Automate API and integration testing across multiple services
Validate business logic, data flow, and end-to-end workflows
Identify edge cases, regressions, and failure scenarios
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
Investigate test failures and work with engineers to resolve issues
Improve test coverage, automation frameworks, and QA processes
What We’re Looking For
Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, STLC, and SDLC
Experience with manual testing across UI and APIs
Ability to design clear test scenarios and test cases
Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
Ability to think through real user behavior and product flows
Good communication and collaboration skills
Build the automation foundation for cutting-edge AI products
Work on large-scale backend systems and real-time AI infrastructure
Be part of a high-ownership engineering culture
Help teams ship faster with confidence through reliable automation
If you're passionate about building robust backend automation and ensuring product quality at scale, we'd love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- Build and maintain a scalable end-to-end automation test suite for backend services
- Automate API and integration testing across multiple services
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, STLC, and SDLC
- Experience with manual testing across UI and APIs
- Ability to design clear test scenarios and test cases
- Validate business logic, data flow, and end-to-end workflows
- Investigate test failures and work with engineers to resolve issues
- Good communication and collaboration skills







