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By adopting an AI/ML-based analytics approach, the platform provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. It enables operations teams to meet their KPIs through seamless collaboration, search-driven conversational user experience, and automated data engineering pipelines.\nOur solutions are used by leading Telecoms, Media Providers, Retail, and Professional Sports organizations across the world. Our novel approach and rapidly expanding footprint put us in the unique position for continued growth to become a category leader. To fuel our growth, we are seeking passionate, high-energy, results-oriented individuals to join our team.\nOur mission is to deliver world-class solutions on behalf of the large enterprise. Supported by leading investors, Selector is uniquely positioned to deliver a world-class solution to address large enterprise requirements across the globe.\nJob Overview\nWe are looking for a highly skilled Lead Automation Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our network observability solutions by designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks. You will collaborate closely with engineering, SRE, DevOps, Sales Customer Support teams to improve test coverage, accelerate delivery, and enhance product quality.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks and test suites for network and observability platforms.\nDefine test strategies for functional, integration, performance, scalability, and regression testing.\nCollaborate with engineering teams to understand requirements, design test cases, and identify potential risks.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster delivery cycles.\nAnalyze test results, identify root causes of failures, and provide actionable feedback to development teams.\nMentor and guide other engineers on best practices for test automation and observability testing.\nDrive quality initiatives across the platform, including test coverage metrics, automation metrics, and reporting.\nWork with observability tools (logs, metrics, traces) to validate network behaviors and ensure platform reliability.\nRequirements\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.\n5+ years of experience in software testing, with at least 2-3 years in test automation.\nStrong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Go.\nExperience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Playwright, Pytest, Robot Framework, JUnit).\nExperience with network technologies, protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, SNMP), and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).\nExperience integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar).\nStrong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.\nExcellent communication skills and ability to influence quality practices across teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.\nKnowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and microservices testing.\nFamiliarity with network performance testing and monitoring.\nExperience with test data management and simulation of network traffic.\nPrior experience mentoring or leading automation teams.\nBenefits & Perks\nHealth Insurance (GMC): Comprehensive medical coverage for employees and dependents, including hospitalization and maternity benefits.\nPersonal Accident Insurance (GPA): Coverage for accidental injury, both on and off duty.\nLife Insurance (Term Plan): Life insurance coverage for eligible employees.\nProvident Fund (PF): Company contribution as per statutory requirements.\nGratuity: As per the Payment of Gratuity Act.\nPaid Time Off: Sick Leave, Earned Leave, and Maternity Leave in line with company policy and applicable laws.\nHolidays: National and regional holidays as per the annual holiday calendar.\nFinal offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience and location, and may vary from the amount listed.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4225,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance","Insurance coverage","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","MLOps","Observability & APM"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:59:24Z"}],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.152,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":237,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:26","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/selector-test-automation-engineer-ai-network-observability-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/selector-test-automation-engineer-ai-network-observability-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T19:03:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1398,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3602,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}