Senior AI-Driven Test Automation Engineer (Cloud)

Avaya; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaya seeks an experienced test automation engineer to own end-to-end software quality across cloud, contact-center, and real-time communication solutions. You will design robust Playwright-based UI and API tests, wire them into GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and support release flows with Argo CD for rapid, reliable software delivery.

You will build AI-assisted automation to triage flaky tests, monitor test coverage with observability dashboards, and simulate production-like traffic to validate

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development in test, quality engineering or test automation with hands-on coding.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python and Playwright; robust UI/API automation and CI/CD.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling or Locust and diagnosing bottlenecks.
• Working knowledge of real-time communications/testing incl. SIP, RTP or WebRTC; debugging media flows.
• Cloud-native debugging skills: Kubernetes, Linux, containers, HTTP, DNS, TLS, API gateways, networking.

Responsibilities

• Design, code and maintain Playwright UI and API test suites with robust fixtures and deterministic assertions.
• Wire automated suites into GitHub Actions/Jenkins pipelines and Argo CD release flows with parallelization and environment checks.
• Develop automated voice/media/contact-center scenarios including SIP/WebRTC workflows and IVR.
• Build synthetic tests and continuous traffic to validate journeys and detect regressions.
• Implement performance/load/soak testing and analyze latency, throughput and saturation.
• Implement chaos tests for pod/node failures and failover; demonstrate recovery behavior.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

Playwright

CI/CD

Observability

AI automation

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

JMeter

Locust

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

Avaya seeks an experienced test automation engineer to own end-to-end software quality across cloud, contact-center, and real-time communication solutions. You will design robust Playwright-based UI and API tests, wire them into GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and support release flows with Argo CD for rapid, reliable software delivery.

You will build AI-assisted automation to triage flaky tests, monitor test coverage with observability dashboards, and simulate production-like traffic to validate