--- title: 'QA Automation Engineer at Asteri AI, Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/qa-automation-engineer-asteri-ai-inc-georgia-jjq359mwgzvz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # QA Automation Engineer at Asteri AI, Inc. - **Company:** Asteri AI, Inc. - **Location:** Georgia - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-01-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asteriai/bcd2850e-d36e-4645-9993-0de341cbe481 ## Job description ## About Us Asteri is an AI-native Work Intelligence and Orchestration Platform that gives large enterprises the intelligence to understand how work is performed today and how it should be performed in the era of AI, eliminating inefficiencies and identifying high-impact opportunities for AI augmentation. Our platform orchestrates AI and human work with enterprise-grade governance, auditability, and measurement built for production environments at scale. ## The Role We are hiring a QA Automation Engineer to join our growing engineering team. As a key member of the QA function, you will have the opportunity to define and build our quality assurance strategy from the ground up. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and quality of our AI-native enterprise platform. You will work in a fast-moving startup environment where balancing speed and quality is critical. While developers own unit, component, and service API tests, this role focuses on high-impact automation that secures production releases. This is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership over the end-to-end quality of production systems used by large enterprise customers. ## What You’ll Do - Define and execute quality strategies and test plans aligned with the product roadmap and release cycles - Build and maintain an automation suite for cross-service end-to-end API tests and UI tests using modern frameworks - Integrate automated tests into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality and rapid feedback - Design automation approaches that provide high confidence in every production release - Perform targeted manual testing for new features and bug fixes - Partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle What Will Make You Successful Must-Haves - Experience automating browser-based enterprise applications using modern frameworks such as Playwright - Experience with automated API testing and validating complex cross-service workflows - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment while balancing speed with high quality - Comfort operating as the sole QA engineer, with full ownership of quality practices, while working within a senior engineering team Nice-to-Haves - Practical experience with TypeScript and contributing to shared automation codebases - Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, particularly AWS - Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting test plans and collaborating cross-functionally - Interest or experience in testing AI-enabled products or ML-powered systems, including using AI to automate tests ## Why Join Us You’ll be the driving force behind quality at Asteri, owning our quality engineering practices end-to-end and shaping how enterprise-grade AI systems get delivered to production. We offer competitive compensation, a remote-friendly culture, and a pragmatic, production-first mindset as we build the future of work orchestration. ## About Asteri AI, Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Asteri is a vertical AI work orchestration platform purpose-built for Fortune 500 Life Sciences enterprises and other regulated industries. - **Entity Type**: Private (startup; inferred early-stage) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Julia Samoylenko (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Life Sciences (pharma, biotech, med devices) and other regulated industries - **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise – Fortune 500 Life Sciences companies - **Mission/purpose**: “Enable Fortune 500 Life Sciences teams to unlock the full potential of AI, scale human–AI work safely, accelerate innovation, and deliver progress that improves lives.” ## Products & Services - **Asteri Platform**: A vertical AI work orchestration platform that unifies three capabilities: - **Work Ontology**: An industry-specific Work Graph that models how work happens by linking tasks with roles, teams, functions, and systems. - **Work Intelligence**: Task-level analysis to reveal workflows, patterns, duplications, and AI-augmentation opportunities. - **Work Orchestration**: System that coordinates execution across humans and AI agents with approvals, oversight, and continuous evaluation. - **Deep vertical use cases** include: - SOP Authoring & Change Control - Adverse Events Monitoring - Clinical Trial Summarization The platform is delivered as a SaaS solution with built-in governance and audit-ready traceability. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; headcount of 11 employees (as of latest data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed - **Growth Signals**: Transitioning from a Palo Alto startup to serving Fortune 500 enterprise clients; targeting the high-stakes, regulated Life Sciences vertical ## Competitive Advantages - Deep vertical focus on Life Sciences (not a horizontal AI tool) - Task-level Work Graph and Work Intelligence that understand enterprise workflows at granular detail - Built-in governance, review/approval loops, and audit readiness for regulated environments - Human-centered closed-loop orchestration that keeps humans in the loop ## Strategic Focus - Scaling governed human–AI work orchestration in Life Sciences - Building deep vertical agentic systems for complex, regulated workflows - Expanding to other regulated industries while maintaining Life Sciences as the beachhead ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include “Act boldly”, “Autonomy with accountability”, “Build shared value”, “Excellence in execution”, and “Move with speed and decisiveness”. Emphasizes ownership, high standards, and rapid iteration. - **Work environment**: On-site in Palo Alto, CA (employees work from physical office; typical time on-site: full time) - **Team size**: Small team (~11 employees, all product + tech) – high impact and autonomy - **Perks**: Not detailed, but early-stage startup environment with direct exposure to founders and enterprise AI challenges - **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on craftsmanship, deep thinking, and judgment; AI/ML engineering led by Kiran de Silva (Lead AI & ML Engineer) and Yonatan Goraly (VP Engineering) ## Sources 1. [asteri.ai/company](https://www.asteri.ai/company) 2. [asteri.ai](https://www.asteri.ai/) 3. [asteri.ai/platform](https://www.asteri.ai/platform) 4. [asteri.ai/careers](https://www.asteri.ai/careers) 5. 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