Head of Performance Engineering & Reliability Automation

Blue Shield of CA; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus Technology seeks a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to design and operate automated validation that proves production readiness for services. You will own performance testing, load testing, scalability validation, synthetic monitoring, test data automation, and release gates, partnering with engineers to define standards, tooling, and CI/CD integration.

You will also drive AI-assisted testing initiatives and build a culture of continuous validation for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or high school diploma with 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 10 years of software or performance engineering experience.
• 6 years leading teams or programs focused on performance, reliability, or production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define and own automated performance and reliability validation systems.
• Lead strategy for performance testing, load testing, and synthetic monitoring.
• Partner with developers to set standards, tooling, and CI/CD integration.
• Guide AI-assisted testing and observability initiatives to improve quality and speed.

Skills

Test automation

Performance engineering

Leadership

CI/CD integration

Observability

AI-assisted testing

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

API testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Locust

Playwright

Cypress

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

New Relic

Azure Monitor

Job description

Stellarus Technology seeks a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to design and operate automated validation that proves production readiness for services. You will own performance testing, load testing, scalability validation, synthetic monitoring, test data automation, and release gates, partnering with engineers to define standards, tooling, and CI/CD integration.

You will also drive AI-assisted testing initiatives and build a culture of continuous validation for