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About Avaya
Avaya is an enterprise software leader that helps the world’s largest organizations and government agencies forge unbreakable connections.
The Avaya Infinity™ platform unifies fragmented customer experiences, connecting the channels, insights, technologies, and workflows that together create enduring customer and employee relationships.
We believe success is built through strong connections – with each other, with our work, and with our mission. At Avaya, you'll find a community that values your contributions and supports your growth every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.avaya.com
Position Overview
As a Player-Coach Test Engineering Lead, you will lead a geographically distributed test engineering team while remaining a hands-on architect, coder and troubleshooter. You will own the engineering of a CI/CD-native quality system for cloud-based voice, media and contact-center platforms: functional automation, protocol- and traffic-level validation, synthetic monitoring, performance and chaos engineering. You will also transform conventional QA into an AI-enabled, continuously validating engineering capability. This is a player-coach role in a fast-paced, startup-like environment—not a coordination-only test management position.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a remote/distributed automation team; establish standards, technical direction, code review, delivery accountability and a visible engineering backlog while contributing production-quality code.
- 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 where browser automation is insufficient.
- Embed tests into GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Argo CD and GitOps delivery gates: pull-request checks, ephemeral environments, deployment verification, risk-based suites, release qualifications and fast failure feedback.
- Build reliable 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 where applicable.
- 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: workload modeling, load/stress/soak testing, concurrency, throughput, queue depth, latency, resource saturation, capacity limits and customer-experience thresholds.
- Introduce chaos/fault-injection scenarios (node failures, network impairment, dependency loss, rate limiting, failover, degraded media) with explicit 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; require auditable, reviewed repairs rather than silent assertion weakening.
- Drive observability-led troubleshooting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Alloy, OpenTelemetry, traces, packet captures and traffic analysis; debug failure across browser, API, network, 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.
Required Experience
- 10+ years in software/test engineering or quality engineering, including meaningful technical leadership of remote or globally distributed engineers; demonstrable current hands-on coding.
- Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or equivalent programming; Playwright and API/integration automation, testing architecture, maintainable frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- Hands-on load and performance tooling (e.g., 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 real test engineering work, with validation and security controls.
- Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver iteratively under changing priorities without sacrificing reliability.
Preferred Experience
- Azure/GCP/AWS, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD/GitOps; Kafka, Redis, relational/document databases and event-driven architectures.
- Telephony and contact-center technology (SBCs, codecs, jitter, packet loss, MOS, call flows, dial plans, IVR and agent desktop).
- Experience with policy-gated autonomous remediation, MCP/tool orchestration, AI agent evaluation and protected test-data handling.
- Engineering in regulated environments with traceability and evidence supporting FedRAMP, PCI DSS or SOC 2.
Education
Pay Transparency
The pay range for this opportunity is from $179,127 to $234,100 + benefits. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary plus bonus for this position. Actual total compensation will vary and is based on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.
Sponsorship and Equal Opportunity
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Avaya is an Equal Opportunity employer and a U.S. Federal Contractor. Our commitment to equality is a core value of Avaya. All qualified applicants and employees receive equal treatment without consideration for race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic. In general, positions at Avaya require the ability to communicate and use office technology effectively. Physical requirements may vary by assigned work location.
This job brief/description is subject to change. Nothing in this job description restricts Avaya right to alter the duties and responsibilities of this position at any time for any reason.
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About Avaya
Avaya is an enterprise software leader that helps the world’s largest organizations and government agencies forge unbreakable connections.
The Avaya Infinity™ platform unifies fragmented customer experiences, connecting the channels, insights, technologies, and workflows that together create enduring customer and employee relationships.
We believe success is built through strong connections – with each other, with our work, and with our mission. At Avaya, you'll find a community that values your contributions and supports your growth every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.avaya.com
Position Overview
As a Player-Coach Test Engineering Lead, you will lead a geographically distributed test engineering team while remaining a hands-on architect, coder and troubleshooter. You will own the engineering of a CI/CD-native quality system for cloud-based voice, media and contact-center platforms: functional automation, protocol- and traffic-level validation, synthetic monitoring, performance and chaos engineering. You will also transform conventional QA into an AI-enabled, continuously validating engineering capability. This is a player-coach role in a fast-paced, startup-like environment—not a coordination-only test management position.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a remote/distributed automation team; establish standards, technical direction, code review, delivery accountability and a visible engineering backlog while contributing production-quality code.
- 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 where browser automation is insufficient.
- Embed tests into GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Argo CD and GitOps delivery gates: pull-request checks, ephemeral environments, deployment verification, risk-based suites, release qualifications and fast failure feedback.
- Build reliable 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 where applicable.
- 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: workload modeling, load/stress/soak testing, concurrency, throughput, queue depth, latency, resource saturation, capacity limits and customer-experience thresholds.
- Introduce chaos/fault-injection scenarios (node failures, network impairment, dependency loss, rate limiting, failover, degraded media) with explicit 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; require auditable, reviewed repairs rather than silent assertion weakening.
- Drive observability-led troubleshooting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Alloy, OpenTelemetry, traces, packet captures and traffic analysis; debug failure across browser, API, network, 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.
Required Experience
- 10+ years in software/test engineering or quality engineering, including meaningful technical leadership of remote or globally distributed engineers; demonstrable current hands-on coding.
- Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or equivalent programming; Playwright and API/integration automation, testing architecture, maintainable frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- Hands-on load and performance tooling (e.g., 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 real test engineering work, with validation and security controls.
- Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver iteratively under changing priorities without sacrificing reliability.
Preferred Experience
- Azure/GCP/AWS, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD/GitOps; Kafka, Redis, relational/document databases and event-driven architectures.
- Telephony and contact-center technology (SBCs, codecs, jitter, packet loss, MOS, call flows, dial plans, IVR and agent desktop).
- Experience with policy-gated autonomous remediation, MCP/tool orchestration, AI agent evaluation and protected test-data handling.
- Engineering in regulated environments with traceability and evidence supporting FedRAMP, PCI DSS or SOC 2.
Education
Pay Transparency
The pay range for this opportunity is from $179,127 to $234,100 + benefits. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary plus bonus for this position. Actual total compensation will vary and is based on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.
Sponsorship and Equal Opportunity
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Avaya is an Equal Opportunity employer and a U.S. Federal Contractor. Our commitment to equality is a core value of Avaya. All qualified applicants and employees receive equal treatment without consideration for race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic. In general, positions at Avaya require the ability to communicate and use office technology effectively. Physical requirements may vary by assigned work location.
This job brief/description is subject to change. Nothing in this job description restricts Avaya right to alter the duties and responsibilities of this position at any time for any reason.
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Who's Hiring
- Apple11
- Infosys8
- Capgemini7
- Amazon5
- Blue Origin5
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software23
- Manufacturing2
- Science & Research2
- Aerospace & Defense2
- Electronics & Hardware2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in automation test lead jobs.
- Proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress
- Experience writing automation scripts in Java, Python, or TypeScript
- Hands-on work with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of QA engineers
- ISTQB Advanced or equivalent certification preferred by many employers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Automation Test Lead Job Search
Tailor your resume to framework depth
Hiring managers for automation test leads want to see which frameworks you built versus inherited. Call out the tools you architected from scratch, not just used, and name the languages behind them, whether Python, Java, or TypeScript.
Highlight CI/CD ownership on your resume
Many automation test lead candidates list pipeline work but bury it. Put your Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI contributions near the top, especially if you owned the integration between test suites and deployment gates.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists automation test lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by tech stack match
Automation test lead roles vary sharply by stack. A role requiring Playwright and TypeScript calls for a different pitch than one built around Appium and Java. Target postings where your primary framework appears in the first paragraph of the job description.
Prepare a system design answer for test infrastructure
Interviewers at the lead level routinely ask how you would design a test framework from zero. Walk through tooling choice, folder structure, reporting, and parallelization before your interview, with a real example from your past work.
Negotiate with execution metrics, not tenure
When discussing compensation, anchor your ask to measurable outcomes: test coverage lifted, build times cut, defect escape rates reduced. Concrete numbers carry more weight than years of experience when countering an initial offer.
Automation Test Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most automation test leads?
The most active employers for automation test leads right now are Apple, Infosys, and Capgemini, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Maryland, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated at companies scaling cloud-based products and those modernizing legacy QA practices.
How many automation test lead jobs are remote?
About 67% of automation test lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the role's independence from physical lab environments. Framework design, code reviews, and pipeline management translate well to distributed teams, making this one of the more remote-friendly engineering lead positions available.
How do you become an automation test lead?
Start by building deep expertise in at least one automation framework and the language behind it. Move into owning test suites end to end, then take on CI/CD integration work. From there, mentor junior QA engineers, lead framework architecture decisions, and document standards across a team. Certifications like ISTQB Advanced signal readiness for the lead title to many employers.
Can you get an automation test lead job with little experience?
Moving directly into an automation test lead role with no prior QA experience is uncommon, but candidates with strong software development backgrounds and self-built automation projects have made the transition. Focus on contributing to open-source test frameworks, building a portfolio of automated test suites in GitHub, and targeting companies that promote from within or value demonstrated skills over tenure.
What does the automation test lead interview process look like?
Most interview processes include an initial recruiter screen, a technical coding round focused on writing automation scripts or debugging existing test code, and a system design session where you walk through building a framework architecture. Final rounds typically involve a cross-functional panel with engineering managers and senior developers who assess your ability to lead, communicate test strategy, and partner with product teams.
Where can I find and apply to automation test lead jobs?
You can find and apply to automation test lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your framework experience and location preferences, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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