Head of Performance Engineering & Test Automation

Blue Shield of CA; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus Technology is seeking a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to define and own automated performance validation across the platform. You will partner with developers to establish standards, tooling, and expectations for design, testing, and operation of services, including AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and signal.

This new role focuses on performance pipelines, synthetic monitoring, release gates, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years in software/quality/performance engineering or related fields.
• Leads teams or programs focused on performance and reliability.
• Hands-on experience building automated test systems and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own performance testing, load testing, and reliability validation across Stellarus platform.
• Define tooling standards and partner with engineering teams to improve quality.
• Drive CI/CD integration and production readiness gating.

Skills

10+ years experience

6+ years lead teams

Automation testing

Distributed systems testing

Performance concepts

CI/CD integration

AI-assisted testing

Kubernetes

Containers

Cloud infrastructure

API gateways

Message queues

Relational databases

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance benchmarks

Test data strategies

Release readiness

Communication

Regulated-industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

k6

Gatling

JMeter

Locust

Playwright

Cypress

Jest

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

New Relic

Azure Monitor

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Docker

Auth0

OAuth2

OpenID Connect

Job description

Stellarus Technology is seeking a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to define and own automated performance validation across the platform. You will partner with developers to establish standards, tooling, and expectations for design, testing, and operation of services, including AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and signal.

This new role focuses on performance pipelines, synthetic monitoring, release gates, and production readiness.