Staff Software Developer Engineer in Test - Performance Engineering
$110,100–$204,900 year
Remote · US
Job Summary
As a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will lead test strategy and execution, develop scalable automation frameworks, and enhance performance engineering practices. You will analyze system performance, guide testing initiatives, foster learning within teams, and establish technical standards. The role requires a minimum of seven years of experience in software development and testing, including expertise in continuous integration systems, programming languages, and test frameworks, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum seven years of experience designing test plans, cases and writing automated tests in a team environment, including performance testing practices.
- Minimum two years of experience testing applications and services with security automation frameworks.
- Minimum seven years of hands-on experience with programming and scripting languages such as C#, Python or JavaScript/Typescript (or other languages) performing software development/QA in a polyglot environment, including scripting to support performance frameworks like JMeter.
- Minimum seven years of experience with continuous integration systems and test case management tools.
- Proficiency with test frameworks such as Nunit, MSTest, Xunit, Selenium, Playwright or Gherkin.
- Experience with public cloud (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud) technologies.
- Experience using git, including performing code reviews, pull requests, and following branching standards such as Git Flow or Trunk-Based Development.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated strong understanding and experience in performance Engineering and QA methodologies for web, API and mobile applications releases.
- Working knowledge of containers and performance engineering orchestration platforms like Blaze Meter, Octoperf or Azure Load test.
- Demonstrated experience in unit testing, integration testing and performance testing.
- Demonstrated experience testing for performance optimization and scalability.
- Demonstrated experience with relational and non-relational database structures.
- Able to understand and construct SQL queries, and NoSQL queries.
Additional Requirements
- Candidates must be residents of WA, OR, ID, AZ, TX or CA.
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