Test Automation Engineering Lead

Avaya

. Lead, mentor, and grow a remote/distributed automation team .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $179,127 - $234,100 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software and test engineering, with a strong focus on automation, performance engineering, and cloud-native technologies. Proficient in leading remote teams and implementing robust testing architectures while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

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Technical Leadership of Remote TeamsHands-On Coding ExperiencePlaywright and API/Integration AutomationLoad and Performance Tooling ExperienceCloud-Native Proficiency with Kubernetes

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Hard Skills

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptLoad/Stress TestingPerformance EngineeringTesting ArchitectureCI/CD IntegrationMeasurement InterpretationSIP/RTP/WebRTC InspectionAI Coding Tools

Soft Skills

Pragmatic Decision-MakingAdaptability Under Changing Priorities

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsJenkinsArgo CDPrometheusGrafanaLokiThanosKubernetesTerraformHelm

Industry Keywords

FedRAMPPCI DSSSOC 2Telephony TechnologyContact-Center SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesDistributed SystemsReal-Time Media TestingAgentic WorkflowsPolicy-Gated Remediation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaScriptJenkinsJMeterKafkaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow a remote/distributed automation team
Establish engineering standards, technical direction, code review, delivery accountability, and a visible engineering backlog
Contribute production-quality code as a hands-on architect, coder, and troubleshooter
Architect and implement Playwright-based UI/API automation, contract and integration tests, service-level tests, and end-to-end customer journeys
Select complementary tools for protocols and real-time media
Embed tests into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, and GitOps delivery gates
Build voice/media/contact-center test harnesses covering SIP signaling, RTP/SRTP media, WebRTC, IVR, agent interactions, call routing, conferencing, transfers, hold/resume, recording, and messaging
Engineer continuous traffic generation and synthetic journeys across calling, messaging, and API workflows
Correlate functional outcomes with signaling traces, media quality, logs, infrastructure, and service telemetry
Own performance engineering, including workload modeling, load/stress/soak testing, concurrency, throughput, queue depth, latency, resource saturation, capacity limits, and customer-experience thresholds
Introduce chaos and fault-injection scenarios with blast-radius and rollback safeguards
Build agentic workflows for test generation, execution orchestration, flaky-test diagnosis, selective retesting, impact analysis, root-cause hints, and self-healing pipelines
Drive observability-led troubleshooting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Alloy, OpenTelemetry, traces, packet captures, and traffic analysis
Debug failures across browsers, APIs, networks, Kubernetes, services, and databases
Partner with platform, SRE, CloudOps, application engineering, security, and release teams on security, zero trust, FedRAMP/PCI DSS/SOC 2 evidence, test-data protection, and release readiness

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in software/test engineering or quality engineering
Meaningful technical leadership of remote or globally distributed engineers
Current hands-on coding experience
Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or equivalent programming skills
Playwright and API/integration automation experience
Testing architecture and maintainable framework experience
CI/CD integration experience
Hands-on load and performance tooling experience, such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, or Locust
Measurement interpretation and systems-level bottleneck investigation
Production or lab experience testing real-time voice/media or contact-center systems
Ability to inspect SIP/RTP/WebRTC/HTTP traffic and reason about customer-visible outcomes
Cloud-native proficiency with Kubernetes, Linux, networking, TLS, DNS, ingress/API gateways, distributed systems, and observability stacks
Experience applying AI coding tools or agentic workflows to test engineering work, with validation and security controls
Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver iteratively under changing priorities without sacrificing reliability
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred: Azure/GCP/AWS, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD/GitOps
Preferred: Kafka, Redis, relational/document databases, and event-driven architectures
Preferred: Telephony and contact-center technology, including SBCs, codecs, jitter, packet loss, MOS, call flows, dial plans, IVR, and agent desktop
Preferred: Policy-gated autonomous remediation, MCP/tool orchestration, AI agent evaluation, and protected test-data handling
Preferred: Engineering in regulated environments with traceability and evidence supporting FedRAMP, PCI DSS, or SOC 2
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits

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