Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

SDVI Corporation is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to set test strategy for major projects and areas of its Rally platform. The role focuses on designing and building test infrastructure and validating system behavior, including scalability, resiliency, performance, and diagnosability.

Responsibilities:

• Implement test strategy with feature teams on a major project or area of Rally, and agree up front on what must be true for high-impact changes and who proves it
• Test Rally against defined system properties and invariants, especially those pertaining to scalability, resiliency, and performance at customer scale
• Design test infrastructure and fixtures that serve both test and development, weigh their tradeoffs with peers, and see them through implementation to adoption
• Build tests that return a clear verdict on well-defined system behaviors
• Advise feature developers as they own the development-loop tests for their own changes
• Test that Rally's failures are diagnosable, so customers and support can tell what broke and why
• Review past production incidents with Support Engineering to find gaps in how we test
• Mentor other SDETs, and improve the practices and tools the team uses

Requirements:

• A track record of driving test strategy for microservice-based systems, cloud-hosted systems, or single-page web applications with minimal direction
• Experience designing test infrastructure and frameworks, and explaining their tradeoffs to peers
• Experience testing how systems behave under load and failure, beyond functional correctness
• Experience applying AI agents to test work, or driving test on an AI-forward engineering team, and a clear sense of when agent-written tests check the implementation instead of the intent
• Strong ability to read and understand Python, Javascript, or another programming language commonly used in test
• Experience applying software or system design principles in the test domain
• Curiosity about how and why systems fail, and the discipline to learn new systems and technologies in depth
• The ability to explain deeply technical topics to non-technical audiences, and to adjust how you communicate for customers, management, or peers
• Experience with load, performance, or fault-injection testing tools
• Experience running automated tests in CI pipelines
• Experience with pytest or similar test frameworks
• Experience with Robot Framework
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Familiarity with professional media formats and tools, such as codecs, container formats, media encoders, and metadata management