Lead Test Architect — Industrial Automation & SCADA

AVEVA; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 96,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex work hours

PTO 20-25 days

Volunteering days

Parental leave

Well-being support

Medical, dental, vision, 401K

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking a Principal Test Architect for Industrial Automation & SCADA in a hybrid full-time role. Lead end-to-end test strategy for the Enterprise SCADA product stack, including visualization, alarm subsystems, historization, and device integration.

You will design scalability, performance, and reliability tests for real-time automation, and collaborate with development teams to diagnose and fix issues.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on product test experience with real-time industrial automation products.
• Deep expertise in testing SCADA software stacks — Visualization, Alarm Subsystem, Historization, and Device Integration.
• Proven track record designing and executing scalability, performance, and reliability tests for real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end test strategy and execution for the SCADA product stack.
• Design, plan, and execute scalability, performance, load, and endurance tests.
• Validate features across the driver framework and platform components; reproduce and triage customer issues.
• Test against industrial protocols (OPC UA, MQTT, ABCIP, S7-SiDirect, OMRON, CODESYS).
• Set up hardware and simulators for PLCs, IoT devices, and gateways.
• Develop automated test frameworks and Python scripts for data generation and log analysis.
• Apply AI tools to testing, triage, and coverage insights.
• Use Wireshark, Debug Diag, and Perfmon for diagnostics.
• Collaborate with distributed teams and mentor junior testers.

Skills

12+ years exp

SCADA testing

OPC UA

MQTT

PLC/IoT devices

Windows debugging

Python scripting

Wireshark

Perfmon

Tools

Python

Wireshark

Debug Diag

Perfmon

Linux

Job description

AVEVA is seeking a Principal Test Architect for Industrial Automation & SCADA in a hybrid full-time role. Lead end-to-end test strategy for the Enterprise SCADA product stack, including visualization, alarm subsystems, historization, and device integration.

You will design scalability, performance, and reliability tests for real-time automation, and collaborate with development teams to diagnose and fix issues.