Remote Automation Lead Jobs
Remote automation lead jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like software development, manufacturing technology, and enterprise IT, at remote-first firms and distributed teams building out test and process automation at scale. Employers hiring remotely right now include Sargent & Lundy, Marrina Decisions, and Avaya. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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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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#LI-HB1
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Who's Hiring
- Sargent & Lundy19
- Marrina Decisions2
- Avaya1
- Eaton1
- micro11
Top Industries Hiring
- Human Resources
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote automation lead jobs.
- 3 to 7 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying automation solutions
- Proficiency with at least one RPA or industrial automation platform such as UiPath, Blue Prism, or Siemens TIA Portal
- Experience leading or mentoring a team of automation engineers or developers
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and agile delivery methods
- Certifications in a relevant automation platform or framework are preferred but not always required
Tips for Your Remote Automation Lead Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote automation lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sifting through non-remote listings mixed in.
Show your async communication in writing
Remote automation leads document frameworks, write RFCs, and unblock teammates through written channels. Include links to technical write-ups, runbooks, or design docs you've authored so hiring teams can see how you communicate without a meeting.
Publish a public automation portfolio on GitHub
Remote employers can't watch you work, so your GitHub becomes your proof of output. Push complete test frameworks, structured README files, and CI pipeline configs that show how you think about automation architecture from the ground up.
Prepare for remote-specific interview scenarios
Remote automation lead interviews often include a live coding screen in a shared environment like CodePair or Coderpad, plus behavioral questions about how you've led distributed QA teams. Practice narrating your reasoning out loud as you work, since interviewers can't see your face or body language.
Remote Automation Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote automation lead job?
Remote automation lead roles go to candidates who can demonstrate self-direction and lead a distributed team without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen heavily for async written communication, since you'll document frameworks, review pull requests, and unblock engineers across time zones without face-to-face check-ins. Strong proficiency in tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, combined with CI/CD pipeline experience, gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote automation leads?
Companies hiring remote automation leads right now include Sargent & Lundy, Marrina Decisions, and Avaya, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, cloud infrastructure firms, and distributed fintech teams account for a large share of these openings, since their engineering teams are already built for async collaboration.
Can you get a remote automation lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level automation lead roles are harder to land because you're expected to work independently from day one with minimal hand-holding. Remote-first startups and mid-size SaaS companies are the most likely to take a chance on an emerging candidate. A public GitHub portfolio with real automation frameworks, contributions to open-source test projects, and demonstrated async communication skills can substitute for direct experience.
Do you need a degree for remote automation lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in automation care far more about what you've built and shipped than where you studied. Demonstrable skills in test automation frameworks, scripting languages like Python or JavaScript, and CI/CD tooling carry real weight. A strong portfolio of automation projects, prior results improving test coverage or release velocity, and clear technical writing ability routinely outweigh a formal degree on distributed teams.
Which industries hire the most remote automation leads?
Most remote automation lead openings sit in Human Resources and Technology & Software, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors hire automation leads remotely because their engineering and QA teams are already distributed, making remote leadership of automation practice a natural fit.
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