Software Development Engineer

Hello There

My name is Himanshu and I serve as the Recruitment Manager at Nexiva INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of SDET Engineer with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at

Job Description

Position : SDET Engineer

Location : Seattle WA Hybrid

Duration : 6 Months

Must have Key Skills: We expect these to be listed specifically on the resumes of candidates being submitted for the role.

• Apache JMeter
• StressStimulus
• Azure Test Cloud
• BlazeMeter

Occasional after-hours testing is required

• Testing hours 8pm PT to 10 pm PT
• After hours testing will still be within the 40 hours per week work schedule.

Overview:

senior level SDET/Performance Engineer to lead and execute automated web performance and load testing for PTAS (Property Tax Administration System) and to provide shared support for high impact county systems with peak load risk including Mid Term Elections (2026) Metro M5(Rider facing transactions) Metro Yard Management(vehicle operational workflows) JHS eMAR (clinical medication administration records) TRUECredentials (identity/credential verification flows) and PAO(Prosecuting Attorney Office) Civil Matter Case Management. The resource will design realistic secure and repeatable large scale tests; analyze cross layer bottlenecks (app/API data network/F5 Azure); and drive remediation with County teams to ensure citizen facing service reliability under peak demand.

Objectives(s)

County to list objectives for the project engagement

1. Own the performance test program (strategy plans assets runs reporting) for PTAS while providing shared coverage for Elections and other named systems.
2. Integrate automated load/stress tests into CI/CD; deliver repeatable non prod scale runs that mirror production traffic patterns.
3. Validate Dataverse/OData API and backend (SQL/Dataverse) performance for PTAS; document baselines and thresholds.
4. Produce management ready reports (findings RCAs remediation tracking) and readiness sign offs leading to go/no go decisions.

Coordinate with Network/F5 CloudOps/Azure Security/IAM and application teams; schedule change windows and after hours runs as needed.

Work Description and Expectations

Work Description:

1. Lead Performance Engineering: Manage the end-to-end performance testing process from establishing baseline reports during development to lead-testing system capacity under peak loads.
2. Performance Baseline Reports (During Development & Unit Testing)
   These reports establish expected response times throughput and resource utilization under normal conditions. They serve as a benchmark for future comparisons and help developers identify regressions early.
3. Load and Stress Test Results (During System Testing)
   These deliverables simulate varying levels of user traffic to evaluate how the application performs under peak load and beyond capacity. They help uncover scalability issues memory leaks or infrastructure limitations.
4. Bottleneck Analysis and Recommendations (During Integration & Pre-Production)
   Detailed diagnostics pinpoint slow database queries inefficient code paths or misconfigured servers. This analysis includes actionable insights for tuning application and infrastructure components.
5. Continuous Performance Monitoring Dashboards (During Deployment & Maintenance)
   Integrated with CI/CD pipelines these dashboards provide real-time visibility into performance trends across builds and environments. They support ongoing optimization and ensure SLAs are consistently met post-deployment.
6. Technical Authority: Lead the design and execution of high-scale orchestration (simulating 250000 concurrent users) and the technical approach for bypassing MFA in automated environments.

Expectations

A. Strategy & Planning

• System specific Performance Test Strategy and Master Test Schedule covering PTAS plus Elections Metro M5/Yard JHS eMAR TRUECredentials PAO. (Update quarterly.)
• Pre test readiness checklist (data identities quotas observability rollback).

B. Test Assets & Automation

• Author/maintain scripts/configs in Azure Load Testing (Azure Test Cloud) and one of K6/JMeter/Gatling for top workflows; parameterize data; model ramp profiles and failover.
• Build synthetic/anonymized datasets; provision non prod test identities under Security/IAM approved guardrails (no production MFA changes).

C. Scale Execution & Reporting

• Run controlled peak load tests; deliver run report 5 business days post execution; publish RCA remediation plan 7 business days for defects; update dashboards.

D. Cross Layer Troubleshooting & Remediation

• Diagnose bottlenecks across application/API DB/cache F5 (VIPs/pools/iRules) and Azure (autoscale/quotas); open/track remediation tickets to closure.

E. Readiness Certificates

• Issue system readiness sign off with thresholds met (response times error rates throughput resilience/failover).

F. Knowledge Transfer

• Maintain evergreen runbooks/playbooks (operations troubleshooting incident response); store in County repository.