Senior Performance Test Engineer: Scale & Reliability

First Tech Federal Credit Union

Rocklin (CA)

On-site

USD 115,000 - 137,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) match

Paid time off (PTO)

Paid holidays

Employee pricing on lending products

Job summary

First Tech Federal Credit Union seeks a Senior Performance Test Engineer to define and execute performance engineering practices for Online and Mobile Banking applications and integrations. You will partner across engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure to identify risks, benchmarks, and bottlenecks to ensure scalable, reliable member experiences.

You will design load and capacity tests, establish SLOs, analyze results, and drive performance improvements through CI/CD and modern architectures.

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, including the ability to explain technical findings to varied audiences.
Hands-on experience supporting release planning, production issue resolution, and root-cause analysis to minimize business impact and maintain platform stability.
Experience in financial services, fintech, online banking, or mobile banking, including SaaS or vendor-hosted platforms.
Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, or New Relic.
Experience with cloud platforms and modern architectures, including microservices and APIs.

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.