Software Development Engineer in Test

Responsibilities

• Define and execute functional automation, load, stress, endurance, spike, scalability, and other comprehensive test strategies.
• Establish performance baselines, analyze metrics and trends, identify bottlenecks and root causes, and provide optimization recommendations.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for web, API, and backend systems.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous, regression, smoke, and new-feature testing.
• Create realistic test environments and datasets in partnership with DevOps and Engineering teams.
• Develop performance reports, analyze test results, and communicate product quality risks and insights.
• Partner with software engineers, product owners, QA, and developers to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and coverage.
• Identify, document, track, and help resolve defects; perform code reviews for test code.
• Develop tools and utilities to improve automation and test coverage.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of software testing experience, including both test automation and performance testing.
• Hands-on experience with k6 as a primary performance testing tool.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright; Cypress or Selenium experience is also considered.
• Proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Experience testing APIs with tools such as Postman or REST-assured.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and repository management, such as Bitbucket or Jenkins.
• Experience creating, setting up, and executing manual test cases, preferably in Zephyr.
• Working knowledge of APM tools including Grafana, New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Familiarity with profiling, logs, metrics, traces, and diagnostics including GC analysis, thread dumps, and heap dumps.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, version control, and infrastructure as code, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Bitbucket, and Terraform.
• Experience or knowledge of API, functional, integration, regression, white box, risk-based, data-driven, behavior-driven, or keyword-driven testing.
• Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps for defect tracking and management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and quality-focused abilities.

Benefits

• Medical benefits with PPO and HSA options.
• Vision, dental, and short-term disability fully covered by Cayuse.
• Unlimited paid time off, holidays, and a flexible work schedule.
• Remote work stipend and remote work environment.
• Equal paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with employer matching.
• Quarterly wellness reimbursement.