IT Solutions Engineer / Test Lead
Axelon Services Corporation
Boston, MA
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Boston, MA
POSTED
12 days ago
Job Title: IT Solutions Engineer / Test Lead (Hybrid)
Location: Boston, MA, Indianapolis, IN, and Portsmouth, NH
Pay: Competitive
Job Summary:
- The GRS Quality Engineering organization is seeking a senior, hands-on Solutions Engineer to design, deliver, and scale modern quality-engineering platforms across a large enterprise application portfolio.
- This role focuses on Gen-AI-driven test automation, quality insights, performance engineering, data validation, and deep collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to embed observability throughout the SDLC.
- You will combine strong technical leadership with strategic thinking to enable global teams to ship software faster, safer, and with greater confidence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of scalable quality-engineering solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, guardrails, and roadmaps.
- Partner with SRE teams to embed metrics, logs, and traces into automated testing and quality gates to reduce MTTR and improve incident readiness.
- Drive Gen-AI/LLM initiatives including self-healing tests, autonomous test generation, and AI-assisted defect triagetaking successful prototypes into production.
- Guide teams on Shift-Left testing, DevTestOps, contract testing, performance engineering, data validation, and program-level quality governance.
- Integrate and optimize vendor tools (e.g., PractiTest, LambdaTest, LoadRunner, UIPath) to maximize ROI.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable quality solutions.
- Support agile delivery by applying testing strategies, standards, and tooling across application teams.
- Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems; provide preventative recommendations.
- Mentor and coach engineers while fostering global knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to roadmap planning, funding prioritization, and documentation of architectures and quality standards.
We encourage you to apply if you are:
- Strategic Partner with the ability to align business outcomes, customer experience, and technical architecture.
- Systems-Level Engineer comfortable designing and whiteboarding end-to-end flows for microservices, data contracts, and event-driven systems.
- AI-Curious Practitioner who turns Gen-AI experimentation into real production value.
- Change Agent skilled at influencing across dev, ops, SRE, product, and leadership.
- Mentor & Multiplier who elevates team capability through coaching and collaboration.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on software or quality engineering experience with technical leadership.
- Proven experience building large-scale test automation frameworks on AWS.
- Hands-on expertise with at least two: Playwright, UIPath, RestAssured, Postman, Pact.
- Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar).
- Solid knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, and IaC.
- Experience with performance testing (k6, JMeter, LoadRunner) and observability (Datadog).
- Exposure to Gen-AI/LLM-powered testing (Copilot, OpenAI, or custom solutions).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Certifications (AWS, testing, or observability) are a plus.
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