QA Engineer - APAC

The role

This person will own end-to-end product quality across AI workflows for Windsurf and Devin. They will design test strategies, debug issues, and build scalable QA processes.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end product quality across AI workflows
• Design and execute comprehensive test strategies
• Break down complex flows into testable scenarios
• Issue reproduction, documentation, and debugging
• Release readiness and quality bar ownership
• Build scalable QA processes and automation

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of QA/Test Engineering experience testing complex product workflows
• Deep expertise in functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies
• Strong developer mindset: comfortable reading/writing code (Python, TypeScript, or similar), navigating codebases, and reasoning about systems
• User-first testing approach
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong debugging instincts
• Familiarity with CI/CD and test automation frameworks
• Comfort working in fast-moving, release-driven environments
• Overlap with US time zones required
• Weekend availability may be required for release cycles

Nice to have

• Experience testing AI-powered products with non-deterministic outputs
• Experience testing IDE plugins/extensions or developer tools
• Familiarity with AI coding tools (Windsurf, Copilot, Cursor, Devin, etc.)
• Prior software engineering background with shipped production code

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.