Performance Test Engineer

Summary

Join BambooHR as a skilled SDET/Performance Test Engineer and contribute to enhancing application performance within our QA teams. You will leverage your automation expertise to guide our automation efforts and shape the future of our QA department. This remote position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, leading performance testing initiatives, and improving testing practices. Responsibilities include designing performance testing frameworks, working with engineering and operations teams, and producing insightful reports. The ideal candidate possesses 2-5 years of experience in performance testing, strong knowledge of various testing tools and methodologies, and a passion for process improvement.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience as a Performance Testing Engineer or SDET
• Experience with Logging, Monitoring and Alerting tools (specifically Rollbar, Loggly, DataDog, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Git and familiarity with the CI/CD process
• Passionate about process and testing structure
• Have a deep understanding of various testing approaches, especially tool-assisted performance and load testing (e.g. Loadmill, Jmeter, LoadRunner, k6, etc.)
• Strong understanding of SQL
• Familiarity with Chaos Engineering, and experience with Chaos Testing
• Experience with Load Testing, in testing for both Stress and Load
• Performance Testing experience or extensive knowledge in performance testing design and strategy with different technologies including relational databases

Responsibilities

• Be embedded in a fully cross functional team working closely with your teammates to determine what needs to be built, identify risks early and apply the appropriate test approach
• Collaborate with Software Architects and Technical Leads on performance-testing framework design, improvements, and tool selection
• Lead/Participate in the constant improvement of our testing practices, i.e. exploratory testing, test charters, session-based test management
• Ability to work closely with engineering and operations teams to dig into logging, monitoring and alerting tools to help understand where we are experiencing vulnerabilities
• Elevate the product team's knowledge in creating performance test plans, approach, metrics, benchmarks, baseline, user response requirements environments, and toolsets to execute the performance and load testing
• Work with our Platform and Systems Engineering teams to design a robust performance-testing environment for production-scale data
• Cross train developers and other testers on good testing practices and techniques
• Participate in discussions on aligning with Product Owners, UX designers, Support and Developers and share perspectives on ensuring testability
• Promote and support the implementation of the CI/CT/CD pipeline for performance tests
• Work with product teams and stakeholders to plan, estimate & implement performance test strategies
• Produce and maintain meaningful reports to establish performance baselines, product health, and testing value

Preferred Qualifications

• A logical and critical thinker - can quickly get up to speed and understand complex domain knowledge
• An experienced communicator - can work with cross-functional teams to create and execute plans
• Passionate about process and structure - can prioritize what is most important and create repeatable processes to improve common workflows
• Focused on the problem - can go heads down to understand the root cause of a bug
• Engaging beyond tests - you understand that empathizing and connecting with our customers, building relationships with your co-workers, and going deep on the product makes you a better teammate and a better engineer
• Committed to BambooHR’s values

Benefits

• 4 weeks paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and we pay you to go on vacation
• Medical with HSA and FSA options, dental, and vision
• 401(k) with a generous company match, access to a personal financial planner, and both legal and life insurance
• We pay for a one year subscription to Financial Peace University and you walk away with financial savvy and a bonus
• Get paid to give your time to the community
• We can help cover some educational expenses
• In-Person Onboarding! All new hires get to experience our in-person onboarding class, Bamboo Beginnings, at our Draper, UT headquarters!
• Flexible Work Models . In-office, work-from-home, or hybrid, depending on position and location