About us:Working at Tech Holding isn't just a job, it's an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. We are a full-service consulting firm that was founded on the premise of delivering predictable outcomes and high-quality solutions to our clients. Our founders and team members have industry experience and have held senior positions in a wide variety of companies – from emerging startups to large Fortune 50 firms – and we have taken our combined experiences and developed a unique approach that is supported by the principles of deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.The Role:We are looking for a Senior SDET / Test Automation Engineer for a project based assignment to build the automated testing and release systems that ensure our products remain reliable as traffic, data volume, integrations, partners, and release velocity increase. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on test automation, API and integration testing, performance and scalability testing, and CI/CD quality gates within an AWS-based environment.This is not a manual QA position. You will design and build reusable test infrastructure, automate critical product and partner workflows, create realistic performance scenarios, and provide engineering teams with clear evidence of whether a release is ready for production.You will work closely with engineering teams and the Performance & Reliability Engineering Lead to ensure quality and scalability are built into the development lifecycle rather than treated as a final release checkpoint.Key Responsibilities:Design and evolve the automated testing architecture across products and engineering teamsBuild and maintain automated API, integration, contract, end-to-end, regression, and UI tests where appropriateDevelop reusable test frameworks, fixtures, synthetic data, mocks, and environment strategiesBuild automated testing for distributed services and integrations running within AWS environmentsDesign and execute load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, degradation, and recovery testsTranslate performance and capacity scenarios into repeatable automated test suites with measurable pass/fail thresholdsModel realistic workloads, concurrency levels, traffic patterns, data volumes, and dependency behaviorIntegrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and establish enforceable quality and release gatesCreate automated release checks tied to quality, latency, reliability, and performance thresholdsEstablish practices for identifying, quarantining, diagnosing, and eliminating flaky testsImprove test observability and failure reporting so engineers can quickly understand and diagnose issuesBuild and maintain reliable test data and test environment strategiesDebug failures across APIs, services, databases, infrastructure, and external integrationsPartner with Performance & Reliability Engineering to validate scalability assumptions and production readinessPartner with Security Engineering on permissions, isolation, negative-path, and abuse-related test scenariosTrack testing trends and help reduce escaped defects, flaky tests, manual release effort, and regression riskCoach engineers on testability, automation, quality ownership, and defect-prevention practicesRequired Skills:Strong experience as an SDET, Software Engineer in Test, Test Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer, or similar engineering-focused testing roleStrong software development and test automation skillsExperience testing APIs, distributed services, integrations, and cloud-based applicationsHands-on experience working within AWS environmentsStrong experience building automated API and integration test frameworksHands-on performance and scalability testing experience using tools such as k6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter, or equivalentExperience designing realistic performance workloads rather than simply executing predefined load testsExperience with load, stress, spike, soak, and scalability testingStrong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelinesExperience establishing automated quality gates and release criteriaExperience with contract testing and testing across service boundariesStrong understanding of test-data management, synthetic data, fixtures, mocks, and environment reliabilityExperience using logs, metrics, traces, and other observability tools to diagnose test and system failuresStrong debugging skills across applications, APIs, infrastructure, databases, and integrationsExperience identifying and reducing flaky or unreliable automated testsAbility to influence engineering teams and promote shared ownership of quality without becoming a centralized testing bottleneckNice to have:Experience testing high-scale SaaS or distributed platformsExperience with AWS services supporting highly available or distributed applicationsExperience testing systems with significant traffic, concurrency, or availability requirementsExperience with resilience, failure injection, dependency degradation, or recovery testingExperience with infrastructure-as-code and ephemeral or automated test environmentsExperience with security-adjacent testing, including permissions, authentication, authorization, isolation, and negative-path scenariosIdentity, DNS, registry, or security domain experienceExperience building quality or test platforms used across multiple engineering teamsWhat Success Looks LikeWithin your first several months, you will have:Established a clear risk-based automation strategy across critical product and partner workflowsBuilt reliable automated regression, API, integration, and contract test coverageCreated repeatable performance and scalability tests for the platform's highest-risk journeysEstablished realistic test-data and environment strategiesIntegrated critical test suites directly into CI/CD pipelinesImplemented measurable release gates tied to quality, latency, reliability, and performance thresholdsReduced flaky tests and improved the clarity and actionability of automated test failuresEstablished performance trend reporting and repeatable load, soak, and failure-testing capabilitiesReduced manual release validation and increased confidence in production readinessHelped establish shared quality ownership across engineering teams*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this timeTech Holding is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and we consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. If you require accommodation in the application process, please contact our HR
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