Remote Automation Test Lead Jobs
Remote automation test lead jobs are open across software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise SaaS at distributed teams and remote-first companies, from mid-level positions on agile QA teams to senior leads overseeing full test automation frameworks. Employers hiring remotely right now include Jack Henry & Associates, Avaya, and PBG. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
Find JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 24+ Remote Automation Test Lead jobs
About Avaya
Avaya is an enterprise software leader that helps the world’s largest organizations and government agencies forge unbreakable connections.
The Avaya Infinityâ„¢ 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.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-HB1
About Avaya
Avaya is an enterprise software leader that helps the world’s largest organizations and government agencies forge unbreakable connections.
The Avaya Infinityâ„¢ 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.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-HB1
See All 24 Remote Automation Test Lead Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find JobsRemote Automation Test Lead Job Market
Who's Hiring
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote 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 Remote Automation Test Lead Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote automation test lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly. Remote postings at distributed teams often close faster than on-site ones, so moving early matters.
Show your framework on a public repo
Remote hiring managers for automation test leads want to see real work, not descriptions of it. A public GitHub repository with a structured test suite using Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress demonstrates framework ownership and async collaboration readiness before the first screen.
Prove async communication in your application
Remote automation test lead roles require clear written communication across Jira, Confluence, and Slack. Write your cover letter and resume the way you would document a test plan: specific, structured, and free of ambiguity. Remote teams screen for this from the first message.
Prepare CI/CD examples for remote interviews
Remote interviews for automation test lead roles consistently go deeper on CI/CD integration than on-site ones do, because pipeline health is harder to monitor across a distributed team. Walk through a real example of how you hooked a test suite into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or a comparable pipeline.
Remote Automation Test Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote automation test lead job?
Target remote-first software companies, distributed fintech teams, and cloud-native SaaS firms, since those employers hire automation test leads remotely most consistently. Remote hiring managers screen for self-directed execution, strong written communication in async tools like Jira and Confluence, and demonstrated ownership of a CI/CD-integrated test framework. A public GitHub repository showing real automation coverage gives you a concrete edge over candidates who only describe their work.
Which companies hire remote automation test leads?
Remote automation test lead roles are posted by Jack Henry & Associates, Avaya, and PBG and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, distributed healthcare technology firms, and fintech teams with engineering headcount spread across multiple time zones are the most consistent sources of these openings.
Can you get a remote automation test lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level automation test lead roles are harder to land because employers expect you to operate independently from day one with minimal in-person oversight. Smaller remote-first startups and contract-to-hire roles are more open to candidates building their record. A portfolio of automation scripts, an open-source contribution to a test framework, or a completed project using Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress can substitute meaningfully for formal experience.
Do you need a degree for remote automation test lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this role weigh demonstrated automation skills, framework ownership, and results over formal credentials. Candidates who show a working knowledge of test architecture, CI/CD integration, and async collaboration tools are competitive regardless of degree status. A relevant certification in test automation or software quality can reinforce a non-traditional background and signal readiness for remote work.
See All 24 Remote Automation Test Lead Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find Jobs