Senior Performance Test Engineer — Banking Apps, Scale

First Tech Federal Credit Union; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee loan discounts

Job summary

First Tech Federal Credit Union in Hillsboro, OR is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to define and execute performance engineering practices for Online and Mobile Banking (OMB) applications, ensuring they meet performance, scalability, reliability, and availability requirements while supporting exceptional member experience.

You will design load, stress, and capacity tests, establish baselines and SLOs, and collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to optimize performance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or quality engineering for high-volume web, mobile, API, or distributed applications.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter, Gatling, or k6.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, database performance analysis, Agile delivery, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and communication skills.
• Experience with observability tools and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute load, stress, volume, endurance, and capacity tests for web, mobile, and API-based applications.
• Establish and maintain performance baselines, benchmarks, service level objectives (SLOs), and performance acceptance criteria.
• Create realistic workload models that simulate member behavior and production transaction volumes.
• Analyze performance test results and identify application, database, infrastructure, and network bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot, tune, and optimize system performance.
• Build and maintain automated performance testing frameworks and integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor application performance trends and provide recommendations to improve scalability, reliability, and resiliency.
• Produce performance test reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for stakeholders and leadership.
• Support release readiness activities by providing performance risk assessments and go/no-go recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to delivery teams promoting best practices.

Skills

JMeter

LoadRunner

BlazeMeter

Gatling

k6

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Job description

First Tech Federal Credit Union in Hillsboro, OR is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to define and execute performance engineering practices for Online and Mobile Banking (OMB) applications, ensuring they meet performance, scalability, reliability, and availability requirements while supporting exceptional member experience.

You will design load, stress, and capacity tests, establish baselines and SLOs, and collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to optimize performance