Senior SDET - Test Automation and Performance Engineering

Senior SDET - Test Automationr (Quality Engineering / Test Automation)

Location: The Woodlands Texas

Reports To: President of intelliSPEC

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm, Hybrid – 3 days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) in office; 40 hours weekly

Travel: Minimal – 5%

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test | 4–5 years of experience

About intelliSPEC

intelliSPEC is an enterprise SaaS platform for industrial inspections, asset integrity, condition monitoring, and turnaround workflows, delivered through configurable, multi-tenant web and mobile applications. intelliSPEC is transforming industrial operations with a unified, intelligent platform built for safety, reliability, and efficiency. Our solutions empower inspection teams and plant operators to work anywhere, even in low-connectivity environments, with secure, resilient, and intuitive tools.

The role

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.

What you bring

• 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.

How we work: GSD culture and AI

• Get Stuff Done: own problems end to end, ship small, iterate fast, and lead by example.

• Evidence over opinion: back decisions with test results, metrics, and traces.

• AI-first efficiency: use AI assistants to generate tests, test data, and k6 scripts and to speed up failure triage, then review and verify every result.

Perks/Benefits

Competitive Pay depending on experience, Paid time off and Holidays, Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA), Company Match 401(k), Company Paid Life Insurance, Company Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability, Company Paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

PK Companies Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

All hiring decisions are based on the qualifications of each candidate compared to other candidates and business needs.

We thank all applicants for their interest in our company, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the US. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the form I-9.

Monday - Friday, 8 am- 5 pm, Hybrid - minimum 3 days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) in office.