Software Quality Engineer – Conversational AI / LLM Testing (Chennai)

Software Quality Engineer – Conversational AI / LLM Testing (Chennai)

03 Sep
|
Cognizant
|
Chennai

03 Sep

Cognizant

Chennai

Experience: 4-9 Years

Location : Noida / Kolkata

Domain : Airlines / Travel Technology Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Quality Engineer with hands-on experience in testing Conversational AI, LLM-based applications, chatbots, virtual assistants, and Agentic AI systems . The ideal candidate will have a strong automation and quality engineering background, deep understanding of how modern conversational systems operate, and solid experience within the Airline or Travel domain , particularly around Booking, Post-Booking, and Check-In workflows .

This role involves validating AI-driven customer conversation journeys, ensuring response quality, evaluating non-deterministic outputs, and establishing robust testing strategies for intelligent systems. Key Responsibilities

Own and drive the quality strategy for conversational AI products and customer-facing virtual assistants.

Design, execute, and automate test scenarios for LLM-powered applications, chatbots, voice assistants, RAG-based systems, and agentic workflows.

Validate conversational flows across booking, post-booking servicing, and check-in experiences within airline and travel ecosystems.

Develop and maintain automated test frameworks using Python.

Create test datasets, golden datasets, and evaluation benchmarks to measure AI system performance.

Design evaluation mechanisms for non-deterministic AI outputs using:

Rubric-based scoring

LLM-as-a-Judge approaches

Human review workflows

Statistical quality assessment methods

Validate prompt behavior, context retention, retrieval accuracy, tool/function calling, and response consistency.

Identify conversational AI failure modes such as hallucinations, context loss, prompt injections, retrieval issues, and reasoning errors.

Collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and Developers to improve system quality and reliability.





Participate in release validation, regression testing, performance testing, and production quality monitoring. Mandatory Skills & Qualifications Quality Engineering

4+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, QA Automation, or SDET roles.

Proven experience owning the quality of a product or platform from testing strategy to production validation.

Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and quality metrics. Python Automation

Solid scripting and automation expertise in Python.

Experience developing automated test suites, validation scripts, and data-driven testing frameworks. Conversational AI / LLM Testing

Hands-on experience testing one or more of the following:

Large Language Model (LLM) applications

Conversational AI platforms

Chatbots and Virtual Assistants

Voice Assistants

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions

Agentic AI applications AI/LLM Evaluation Expertise

Practical understanding of:

Prompt engineering principles

Context windows and memory handling

Function/Tool Calling

Retrieval pipelines

LLM evaluation methodologies

AI quality metrics and benchmarking

Experience with:

Golden datasets

Human evaluation workflows

Statistical validation approaches

Non-deterministic output testing Domain Knowledge

Strong experience in Airline or Travel domain , including:

Flight Booking journeys

Reservation Management

Post-Booking Services

Check-In processes

Passenger servicing workflows Preferred Skills

Experience with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar AI platforms.

Understanding of NLP concepts and conversational design.

Exposure to API testing and automation tools.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.

Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools for AI applications.

📌 Software Quality Engineer – Conversational AI / LLM Testing (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai

Reply to this offer

Impress this employer describing Your skills and abilities, fill out the form below and leave Your personal touch in the presentation letter.

Subscribe to this job alert:

Get the latest job offers by email for: software quality engineer – conversational ai / llm testing (chennai) / chennai

Subscribe to this job alert:

Get the latest job offers by email for: software quality engineer – conversational ai / llm testing (chennai) / chennai