Lead SCADA Test Architect - Industrial Automation

AVEVA Denmark; Lake Forest (CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex work hours

20 days PTO rising to 25

401K

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking a Principal Test Architect for Industrial Automation & SCADA based in Lake Forest, hybrid. You will own the test strategy for the Enterprise SCADA stack, including visualization, alarm, historization and device integration, and lead end-to-end validation against industrial protocols.

You will build automated test frameworks, apply AI to testing, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with global teams.

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, including Visualization, Alarm Subsystem, Historization, and Device Integration.
• Design, plan, and execute scalability, performance, load, and endurance tests for real-time industrial automation products.
• Validate new features across the driver framework and platform components; reproduce, isolate, and triage customer-reported issues from deployed versions.
• Design and execute end-to-end validation against industrial communication protocols, including: OPC UA MQTT (Sparkplug and JSON-based) Allen Bradley CIP (ABCIP) Siemens S7 / S7-SiDirect OMRON CODESYS
• Set up and validate against real hardware — PLCs, IoT devices, and gateways — as well as simulators and emulators representative of customer deployments.
• Build and evolve automated test frameworks; contribute Python-based scripting for test automation, test data generation, and log analysis.
• Apply AI tools and technologies to test authoring, execution triage, failure analysis, and coverage optimization.
• Utilize debugging and diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, Debug Diag, and Perfmon to isolate performance and reliability issues.
• Collaborate with geographically distributed teams and work across multiple stakeholders including Technical Support, End Customers, and Internal Engineering Teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior test engineers and drive quality culture and test discipline across the program.

Skills

SCADA testing

Test strategy

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

Team mentoring

Tools

Wireshark

Debug Diag

Perfmon

PLC hardware

Job description

AVEVA is seeking a Principal Test Architect for Industrial Automation & SCADA based in Lake Forest, hybrid. You will own the test strategy for the Enterprise SCADA stack, including visualization, alarm, historization and device integration, and lead end-to-end validation against industrial protocols.

You will build automated test frameworks, apply AI to testing, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with global teams.