Lead Test Architect — Industrial SCADA & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flex work hours

401K

PTO 20 days rising to 25

Parental leave

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking a highly skilled Principal Test Architect to lead end-to-end testing for our Industrial Automation & SCADA product stack in Lake Forest, CA. The role demands expertise in SCADA test strategy, performance testing, and protocol validation across multiple hardware and software layers.

Responsibilities include building scalable test frameworks, automating tests with Python, and collaborating with distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on product test experience with real-time industrial automation.
• Deep expertise in testing SCADA software stacks — Visualization, Alarm Subsystem, Historization, and Device Integration.
• Proven track record designing scalability, performance, and reliability tests for real-time systems.
• Knowledge of PLCs and IoT devices; bring-up, configuration, and validation.
• Hands-on familiarity with industrial automation protocols: MQTT, OPC UA, ABCIP, S7-SiDirect, OMRON, and CODESYS.
• Troubleshooting on Windows-based applications; partner with developers on complex defects.
• Strong communication and teamwork in multi-disciplinary environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end test strategy and execution for the SCADA product stack.
• Design and execute scalability, performance, load, and endurance tests for real-time industrial automation products.
• Validate features across driver framework and platform components; reproduce and triage customer issues.
• Validate tests against industrial protocols and real hardware or simulators.
• Build and evolve automated test frameworks; contribute Python scripting for test automation and log analysis.
• Apply AI tools to test authoring, triage, and coverage optimization.

Skills

SCADA testing

Test automation

Python scripting

MQTT

OPC UA

ABCIP

S7-SiDirect

OMRON

CODESYS

Windows troubleshooting

Tools

Wireshark

Debug Diag

Perfmon

Job description

AVEVA is seeking a highly skilled Principal Test Architect to lead end-to-end testing for our Industrial Automation & SCADA product stack in Lake Forest, CA. The role demands expertise in SCADA test strategy, performance testing, and protocol validation across multiple hardware and software layers.

Responsibilities include building scalable test frameworks, automating tests with Python, and collaborating with distributed teams.