Senior Performance Engineer

If you are motivated and believe in the credit union philosophy of "People Helping People," join our team!

Position Overview:

The purpose of the Senior Performance Engineer position is to serve as a senior member of the Quality Assurance team leading the design, development, and execution of load, performance, and stress tests to ensure systems are robust, scalable, and performant.  This includes consultation on establishment of non-functional requirements, execution of performance tests, analyzing test results, and providing recommendations to optimize performance and scalability of solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• (40%) Lead design, development and execution of performance and stress tests to validate system performance and scalability for a variety of platforms and solutions for highly complex and integrated platforms.
• (20%) Implement, develop, and maintain performance testing framework and tools serving as subject matter expert to advise on tooling strategy. Own performance architecture responsibilities including environment dependency design, load generation infrastructure, and data requirements including generation for load scenarios.
• (20%) Analyze performance test results to identify performance bottlenecks and collaborate with developers to recommend performance enhancing optimizations.
• (10%) Collaborate with cross functional teams including developers, solution architects, product managers, business systems analysts, QA analysts, and project managers providing leadership on the establishment of non-functional requirements related to performance and scalability. Leading the process of working with multiple stakeholders to create load scenarios reflective of production expectations and development of workload model with response time requirements.
• (10%) Produce formalized performance test strategy, reports and dashboards detailing performance test approach, tooling, and results for distribution to both IT and business stakeholders.

Required Education & Experience (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

• High School Diploma or GED
• 5+ years work experience in quality assurance with a focus on performance testing.
• Expertise in performance test and monitoring tools required such as JMeter, LoadNinja or LoadRunner.
• Expertise designing, developing, and executing performance tests at both service level and end to end for a variety of platforms.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java and Python.
• Experience concepts in a variety of domains including software development, security, data interchange, networking, and data management.
• Experience leading nonfunctional requirements gathering activities including identification of load scenarios, scenario and transaction definition, and development of workload model.
• Experience translating raw metrics into a business context for presentation to non-technical audience.
• Expertise in QA methodologies and process
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with cross functional team.
• Strong communications skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to troubleshoot effectively including performance tuning and optimization skills.

Preferred Education & Experience (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

• Desired education of bachelor’s degree with fields of study of Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Finance or Engineering.
• 7+ years work experience in quality assurance with a focus on performance testing preferred.
• Experience working on products and services in Financial Industry is preferred.
• Experience working with IT leadership to create technical strategies and with senior IT groups in an advisory role is preferred.

Job Environment & Physical Requirements:

• This is a Hybrid role with regular onsite work expectations with remote flexibility.
• Sitting for prolonged periods
• Telephone for prolonged periods.
• Computer for prolonged periods

SECU provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Disclaimer

State Employees' Credit Union reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower level based on business need.