Senior SDET

RAPP Chicago is looking for a Senior SDET to join our award-winning Technology team.

WHO WE ARE:

We are RAPP world leaders in activating growth with precision and empathy at scale.

As a global next-generation precision marketing agency we leverage data creativity technology and empathy to foster client growth. We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create and in our workplace. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individuals needs beliefs behaviors and aspirations.

We foster an inclusive workplace that emphasizes personal well-being.

HOW WE DO IT:

At RAPP our fearless superconnectors help to create value from personal brand experiences by focusing on three key areas: connected data connected content and connected decisioning.

Our data analysts identify who that person is our strategists understand what they want and our award-winning technologists and creatives know how to deliver it ensuring were able to activate authentic customer connections for our clients.

Part of Omnicoms Precision Marketing Group RAPP is comprised of 2000 creatives technologists strategists and data and marketing scientists across 15 global markets

YOUR ROLE:

RAPP has a tradition that encourages entrepreneurial thinking innovative solutions and the conviction to executive. We seek individuals who thrive in fast-paced problem-solving environments. We are looking for a talented Sr SDET with a specialty in performance engineering.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design develop and maintain automated test frameworks across functional integration and regression layers.
• Shift quality left by embedding in feature squads contributing to testable design acceptance criteria and code reviews.
• Own test automation integration within CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions CodePipeline Jenkins).
• Champion testing standards patterns and reusable tooling across engineering teams.
• Define and own the performance testing strategy covering load stress soak spike and chaos scenarios.
• Establish SLO/SLA baselines in collaboration with Engineering Product and Platform teams.
• Author performance testing standards and runbooks for org-wide adoption.
• Build and maintain performance test suites using k6 Gatling or Locust scripted version-controlled and CI-integrated.
• Model realistic traffic patterns data volumes and concurrency profiles against AWS-hosted services.
• Design tests targeting API Gateway Lambda cold starts ECS/EKS container throughput RDS/Aurora query latency and SQS/SNS queue depth under load.
• Profile Lambda execution duration memory utilization and concurrency limits.
• Evaluate RDS/Aurora connection pool exhaustion slow query patterns and read replica lag under load.
• Automate baseline comparison runs on every release candidate; surface regressions before they reach staging.
• Integrate AWS Load Testing solutions (e.g. Distributed Load Testing on AWS Artillery Cloud) for large-scale test execution.
• Deliver clear business-contextualized performance reports to engineering leadership translating p99 latency and error rates into user and revenue impact.
• Maintain a performance health dashboard (CloudWatch dashboards or Grafana) visible to all engineering stakeholders.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Systems Engineering or related field.
5 years in software test automation with focus in performance engineering
Proficiency in Python or JavaScript.
Basic understanding of unit testing frameworks such as PyTest Mocha or Jest.
Exposure to API testing tools such as Postman or REST Assured.
Knowledge of Git or GitHub.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and containerization (Docker).

Our hybrid work model:

RAPPs current hybrid model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture while also supporting flexibility for all employees. As such we have the option to work from home two days per week if wed like.

RAPP provides a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance 401(k) stock options Healthcare & Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts vacation sick and personal days and positive activism days paid parental leave and disability benefits. For more information regarding Omnicom benefits please visit . A reasonable estimate of the salary for this role at the time of posting is $90000 - $99000. This range is specific to Chicago and multiple factors are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: skill set experience and training certifications; etc. This is an exempt position. If your requirements fall outside of this range you are still welcome to apply.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.