Senior Performance Engineer: LoadRunner, JMeter, Dynatrace

M&T Bank; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to define, engineer, and lead enterprise performance testing ensuring scalability, reliability, and production readiness of complex applications and platforms.

The role provides technical leadership across initiatives, mentors engineers, and partners with multiple teams including cloud, cybersecurity, and vendors to drive shift-left performance engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years combined higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture.
• Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in software testing, performance engineering, software engineering, or a related technical engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience developing and executing enterprise performance tests with OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud), LoadRunner Enterprise, or LoadRunner Professional/VuGen.
• Advanced experience des

Responsibilities

• Lead performance engineering strategy, planning, execution, analysis, and reporting for complex, high-risk, or enterprise-scale initiatives across the SDLC.
• Design and implement performance test strategies, workload models, test frameworks, and validation approaches for web, API, mobile, cloud, containerized, and distributed applications.
• Engineer and maintain advanced performance test assets using LoadRunner Cloud, LoadRunner Professional/VuGen, JMeter, BlazeMeter, and related tooling.
• Develop robust automated performance test scripts with C and other languages, including correlation, parameterization, reusable functions, error handling, data management, and validation logic.
• Lead load, stress, endurance, volume, scalability, resiliency, failover, and capacity testing to evaluate behavior under peak demand.
• Use Dynatrace and observability tools to correlate metrics; identify bottlenecks and guide root-cause analysis.
• Review architectures, designs, and plans to identify performance risk and mitigation strategies.
• Define test objectives, workload assumptions, success criteria, and production-readiness recommendations.
• Provide authoritative guidance on performance risk and remediation options to teams and vendors.
• Create and maintain reusable performance engineering standards, scripting practices, and governance controls.
• Advance shift-left testing via mentoring teams in JMeter, LoadRunner, and CI/CD integration.
• Coordinate activities with OpenText, BlazeMeter, Dynatrace, and vendors to resolve tooling and product-performance issues.
• Lead troubleshooting of production and pre-production performance issues by reproducing workloads and validating fixes.
• Support capacity planning by translating growth into workload models and risk-based recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation and modern tooling.

Skills

Technical leadership

Performance engineering

Mentoring

Test design

Root-cause analysis

Education

Combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience

Tools

LoadRunner Cloud

LoadRunner Enterprise

LoadRunner Professional/VuGen

JMeter

BlazeMeter

Dynatrace

Job description

M&T Bank is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to define, engineer, and lead enterprise performance testing ensuring scalability, reliability, and production readiness of complex applications and platforms.

The role provides technical leadership across initiatives, mentors engineers, and partners with multiple teams including cloud, cybersecurity, and vendors to drive shift-left performance engineering practices.