Agentic Software Test Engineer


Job Location:

La Crosse, WI - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 97406 - 135834
Posted on: 3 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable sustainable and efficient climate solutions for buildings homes and transportation its our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies and through our businesses including TraneandThermo King sustainability is not just how we do businessit is our business. Do you dare to look at the worlds challenges and see impactful possibilities Do you want to contribute to making a better future If the answer is yes we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging whats possible for a sustainable world.

Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home.

We boldly go.

Where is the work:

Monday to Thursday work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays choose your work location balancing what your work requires.

Agentic Software Test Engineer TRACE

At Trane Technologies we Challenge Possible. Our brands including Trane and Thermo King create access to cooling and comfort in buildings and homes transport and protect food and perishables connect customers to elevated performance with less environmental impact dramatically reduce energy demands and carbon emissions and innovate with a better world in mind. We boldly challenge whats possible for a sustainable world.

The Role

The Agentic Software Test Engineer TRACE sits on the Customer Driven Solutions (C.D.S.) Team and runs the agentic testing organization for TRACE the building energy simulation platform that powers HVAC load calculations equipment sizing and ASHRAE-compliant reporting for engineers worldwide.

You direct a team of AI testing agents across a / Blazor codebase working shoulder-to-shoulder with the TRACE software developers as their dedicated QA partner. Youre the captain of the agent crew and the quality voice the developers trust coaching the agents raising the bar and putting your name on the work that ships.

This is a hands-on engineering seat; you direct the agent crew; you partner with the humans.

What Youll Do

Direct the agentic testing team define agent personas dispatch patterns and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for QA across TRACE.

Author the prompts context contracts and knowledge bases that drive the agents through test plan generation regression authoring defect triage exploratory testing and accessibility sweeps.

Build evaluation harnesses that measure agent output quality false-positive rates on bug reports regression coverage drift flaky-test detection eval-vs-production divergence and tighten the loop sprint over sprint.

Curate what the agents produce test plans automated scripts exploratory findings regression results and ship the best of it into the engineering pipeline with your stamp on it.

Hunt bugs through manual automated and agent-driven methods and verify every agent-surfaced finding before it reaches the development team.

Own TRACEs quality posture as the SME on HVAC simulation correctness ASHRAE compliance reporting EnergyPlus integration behavior and cross-repo regression risk.

Partner with developers and Product Owners on test coverage decisions release readiness and quality strategy.

Run regression functional and data tests across 10.0 backend Blazor frontend PostgreSQL schema and EnergyPlus calculation engine.

Design adversarial verification workflows parallel agents that try to refute a test result before its trusted.

Curate the agent learning loop capture recurring failure patterns encode them into spec rules and feed them back into agent knowledge bases so the same defect class is caught earlier next sprint.

Translate customer-impact reports into agent-runnable test scenarios and explain quality posture to non-technical stakeholders without hand-waving.

What You Bring

Required

5 years in software quality assurance with a real track record of shipping tested software.

1 year hands-on with LLM-based agents AI coding assistants or multi-agent systems in a production or near-production workflow.

Strong test-design instincts across unit integration system functional and exploratory layers; comfortable owning test plans defect lifecycle regression strategy and release gating.

Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code Cursor Copilot Workspace or equivalent) and the Anthropic / OpenAI APIs.

Working knowledge of prompt engineering structured outputs (JSON Schema) tool use and multi-agent orchestration (parallel/pipeline/judge-panel/adversarial-verify).

Comfort designing evals and treating eval results as a first-class quality metric.

Bias toward human-in-the-loop verification never trusting agent output blindly.

Ability to read and modify production code in C# Python or JavaScript not just test code.

Experience with GitHub Actions testing pipelines.

Working knowledge of Jira (or equivalent) and testing tools like Playwright BUnit xUnit / NUnit.

Strong written and oral communication; able to explain agent behavior eval results and quality posture in plain language.

Preferred

Bachelors Degree in Engineering Computer Science or related discipline (or equivalent experience we care more about what youve shipped than where you studied).

Familiarity with C# .NET 10.0 Blazor Core Razor plus the usual web stack (JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS / HTML).

Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and EF Core including database-aware test design (cascade-delete chains FK integrity schema migration testing).

Background in building energy simulation EnergyPlus ASHRAE 140 software testing ASHRAE 90.1 / 62.1 / 169 compliance reporting or HVAC equipment sizing workflows.

Agile / Scrum experience.

Working Style

This is an on-site role so you can pair tightly with the TRACE engineering team and the agent crew youre directing. Expect a fast feedback loop candid technical conversation and a team that takes both craft and outcomes seriously.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs that help our employees thrive in both their professional and personal lives. We are proud of our winning culture which is inclusive and respectful at its core. We share a passion for serving customers caring for others and boldly challenging whats possible for a sustainable world.

We are committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin pregnancy age marital status disability status as a protected veteran or any legally protected status.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

$97406.66 - $135834.99

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

No

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority merit geographic location education experience travel requirements and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally benefits may vary depending on the region business alignment union involvement and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:


  • Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives WE DARE TO CARE!
  • Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
  • 401K match up to 6% plus an additional 2% core contribution up to 8% company contribution.
  • Paid time off includes 15 vacation days 9 paid holidays 3 floating holidays sick leave and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
  • Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations.


Safety Sensitive Role:

No

The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin pregnancy age marital status disability status as a protected veteran or any legally protected status.


Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable sustainable and efficient climate solutions for buildings homes and transportation its our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies and through our businesses including TraneandThermo King sustainability ...

About Company

Welcome to Trane Technologies. As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient environments, we are putting the planet first.

View Profile View Profile