Lead Network QA & Test Automation Engineer

Selector AI; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

401K and Roth 401K

Life insurance & AD&D

Hybrid/remote work options

Job summary

Selector AI is seeking a Lead Automation Engineer to join our Engineering team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks for network observability, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of our solutions.

You will collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and software teams to expand test coverage, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor peers on best practices. Strong networking and automation experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on experience in networking and load testing.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for network and observability platforms.
• Define test strategies for functional, integration, performance, scalability, and regression testing.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design test cases and identify potential risks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster delivery cycles.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes of failures, and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices for test automation and observability testing.
• Drive quality initiatives across the platform, including test coverage metrics, automation metrics, and reporting.
• Work with observability tools to validate network behaviors and ensure platform reliability.

Skills

Networking

Test automation

CI/CD

Python

Java

Go

Scripting

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Selenium

Playwright

Pytest

Robot Framework

JUnit

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Selector AI is seeking a Lead Automation Engineer to join our Engineering team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks for network observability, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of our solutions.

You will collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and software teams to expand test coverage, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor peers on best practices. Strong networking and automation experience is essential.