Lead Performance SDET & Non-Functional Quality

Vancity; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage Employer

Customizable Benefits

Generous Vacation

Extra Stat Holidays

Immediate Health Coverage

Defined Benefit Pension

Job summary

Vancity is expanding its Quality Engineering leadership for non-functional testing, performance, resilience and observability across member-facing platforms. This senior role combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction to raise reliability and efficiency across BC and Ontario teams.

The Engineering Lead will guide a team of test engineers, build scalable testing frameworks, and integrate AI-assisted approaches into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, or related field.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise-scale non-functional testing initiatives as a senior contributor or Performance SDET.
• Deep expertise in performance-engineering methodologies, workload modelling, capacity planning and scalability testing.
• Hands-on experience designing and evolving performance-testing frameworks using industry tools.

Responsibilities

• Translate non-functional quality strategy into executable plans aligned to business needs.
• Design scalable, data-driven validation for performance, resilience, availability and scalability objectives.
• Develop quality metrics and CI/CD instrumentation for feedback loops.
• Enforce quality gates within CI/CD pipelines and establish data-driven validation.
• Build repeatable workload modeling strategies representing member behavior and usage patterns.
• Lead by example in framework development, coding, and reviews within the Performance SDET community.
• Define performance SLAs/SLOs and drive resilience validation across cloud-native architectures.

Skills

Performance engineering

Quality engineering

Site reliability

Automation

AI-powered testing

Test automation

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud/AWS/AZURE

Kubernetes

Tools

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Locust

NeoLoad

Gremlin

Chaos Toolkit

Azure Chaos Studio

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Job description

Vancity is expanding its Quality Engineering leadership for non-functional testing, performance, resilience and observability across member-facing platforms. This senior role combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction to raise reliability and efficiency across BC and Ontario teams.

The Engineering Lead will guide a team of test engineers, build scalable testing frameworks, and integrate AI-assisted approaches into CI/CD pipelines.