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# Senior SDET - Test Automation and Performance Engineering

- **Company:** PK Companies
- **Location:** The Woodlands, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Integrity, DevOps, Apache JMeter, Load Testing, MongoDB, Prometheus, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Test Data, TypeScript, Performance Testing, Cloud Monitoring, ReactJS, Appium, Grafana, Gatling, Git, Low Latency, Playwright, React Native, JestJS, Restful APIs, Docker, SDET
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=aae703652cfcf46b

## About the Role

* 4-5 years in software testing or SDET roles, including 3+ years of automation and 1+ year of performance/load testing.
 * Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, Git, and code-review experience.
 * Hands-on Playwright automation with reliable locators, isolated test data, and clear failure diagnostics.
 * REST API testing covering authentication, authorization, negative scenarios, and data integrity (Vitest, Jest, Supertest, or similar).
 * k6, JMeter, or Gatling experience, with sound workload modeling and latency-percentile analysis.
 * CI/CD, Docker, and MongoDB experience; Azure DevOps preferred.
 * Experience mentoring engineers or leading automation initiatives, with clear written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

 * React and Node.js/Fastify; React Native testing with Maestro or Appium.
 * Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor), accessibility (axe), or security testing.
 * Industrial inspection or asset-management domain knowledge.

## Description

Lead automated testing and performance engineering across intelliSPEC: set the quality strategy, mentor junior SDETs, and work with developers, product, and DevOps to turn findings into verified improvements.

What you will do

 * Build and maintain Playwright (TypeScript) tests for inspection forms, calculations, approvals, dashboards, attachments, and reports.
 * Expand API, integration, and regression coverage with Vitest and Supertest, validating both responses and persisted data.
 * Test tenant isolation, permissions, authentication, and metadata-driven forms and workflows.
 * Design k6 load, stress, spike, and soak tests; measure p95/p99 latency, throughput, and error rates; and verify fixes with developers.
 * Integrate tests and performance thresholds into Azure DevOps pipelines and eliminate flaky tests.
 * Support mobile offline and sync testing, log defects in Jira, and communicate release risks.

Leadership

 * Define the automation and performance testing strategy, framework standards, and release quality gates.
 * Mentor junior SDETs through pairing, code reviews, and well-scoped tasks.
 * Partner with engineering and product leads on release readiness and quality KPIs, making evidence-based go/no-go risk calls.
 * Evaluate and introduce tools, including AI-powered testing, to raise team velocity.