Senior Performance Engineer – Banking Apps & CI/CD

First Tech Federal Credit Union; Chelmsford (MA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee pricing on lending products

Job summary

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to define and execute performance engineering for Online and Mobile Banking applications, ensuring they meet scalability, reliability, and availability targets while supporting a superior member experience.

Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and product teams to identify risks, establish benchmarks, and drive performance improvements throughout the SDLC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in performance testing for high-volume apps.
• Hands-on with listed load testing tools.
• Strong SQL and performance analysis skills.
• Experience in financial services or fintech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute load, stress, volume, endurance, and capacity tests for web, mobile, and API apps.
• Establish baselines, SLOs, and performance acceptance criteria.
• Create workload models simulating member behavior and production volumes.
• Analyze results to identify bottlenecks in apps, DB, and network.
• Collaborate with engineering to tune and optimize performance.
• Build automated performance testing frameworks for CI/CD.
• Monitor performance trends and recommend scalability improvements.
• Produce performance reports and executive summaries for stakeholders.
• Support release readiness with risk assessments and go/no-go decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to delivery teams.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing tools

SQL & DB analysis

Agile & CI/CD

Observability tools

Cloud & microservices

Stakeholder communication

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

BlazeMeter

Gatling

k6

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

AppDynamics

New Relic

Job description

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to define and execute performance engineering for Online and Mobile Banking applications, ensuring they meet scalability, reliability, and availability targets while supporting a superior member experience.

Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and product teams to identify risks, establish benchmarks, and drive performance improvements throughout the SDLC.