Senior Performance Engineer (Remote)

Webstaurantstore; Lititz (Lancaster County); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

WebstaurantStore is seeking a Senior QA Performance Engineer to own performance testing across our web and mobile platforms. You’ll influence strategy with engineering leadership and shape how we scale infrastructure and containerized deployments.

You will lead end-to-end testing, ensure performance targets are met, and mentor mid- and junior engineers while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver reliable systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and executing load, stress, and scalability tests across web and mobile platforms.
• Ability to translate performance targets into test plans and reports.
• Mentor junior engineers on performance testing best practices.

Responsibilities

• Use JMeter to perform load and performance testing on web and mobile applications.
• Collect performance targets and KPIs from stakeholders for pre-performance execution.
• Design, script, and execute load and scalability tests with comprehensive reports.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

Stress testing

Test planning

Mentoring

Tools

JMeter

Job description

Job Summary

As the largest online distributor of restaurant supplies and equipment, WebstaurantStore offers a catalog of more than 430,000 products supported by fast, reliable shipping. Nearly all our technological design, development, and system management are handled in-house, allowing us to build custom, innovative solutions in a rapidly evolving e-commerce landscape.

Due to this continued growth, we’re seeking a Senior QA Performance Engineer to join our team. This is a high-visibility role with reach across all active development initiatives, working closely with both engineering and leadership to shape performance strategy as the organization grows.

You’ll have broad impact across our full product portfolio, owning performance testing end-to-end across web and mobile applications as we scale our infrastructure and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Performance Engineer, you will:

• Use JMeter to perform load and performance testing on web and mobile applications.
• Collect necessary performance targets and/or KPIs from stakeholders’ pre-performance execution.
• Design, script and execute load, stress, and scalability testing and deliver comprehensive reports to the project team.
• Collaborate on performance related test cases to execute and provide necessary data to peers for bug entry.
• Report issues discovered during performance evaluation and work closely with the engineering team to analyze the issues and track them to resolution.
• Keep abreast of current performance testing methodologies, and work autonomously to update tools, skills, and techniques.
• Mentor Mid and Junior Engineers on Performance Testing best practices.
• Work with leadership in Performance Testing Strategizing and Planning.
• Create and update existing documentation.
• Estimate the Level of Effort needed to test and complete tasks.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed while sitting/standing and interfacing with a personal computer.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.
• Requires the regular use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires occasional bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching.
• Requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull medium weights, up to 50lbs.

Remote Work Qualifications

• Access to a reliable and secure high-speed internet connection. Cable or fiber internet connections (