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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.
Skills Required
- 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 such as JMeter, LoadNinja or LoadRunner
- Designing, developing, and executing performance tests at service level and end-to-end
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java and Python
- Experience with software development, security, data interchange, networking, and data management concepts
- Leading nonfunctional requirements gathering, load scenario identification, and workload model development
- Translating raw metrics into business context for non-technical audiences
- Expertise in QA methodologies and processes
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Troubleshooting, performance tuning and optimization skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Business, Finance, or Engineering
- 7+ years work experience in quality assurance with a focus on performance testing
- Experience in the Financial Industry
- Experience advising IT leadership and senior IT groups on technical strategies
SECU Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SECU and has not been reviewed or approved by SECU.
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Retirement Support — Immediate 100% vesting and a 200% employer match on employee 401(k) contributions from 1–5% of pay (up to a 10% employer match) stand out. This level of support is described as unusually rich among financial‑services employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 11 paid holidays plus 16 floating‑holiday hours, paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement and volunteer time, and PTO that can reach 32 days per year with carryover up to 280 hours. These provisions provide predictable time off and flexibility across life events.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical (PPO or HDHP) with HSA/FSA options, dental including a minor‑child orthodontia option, and vision are available for employees and eligible dependents. Employer‑paid basic life/AD&D and short‑term disability, with subsidized long‑term disability, add robust income protection.
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What We Do
Even though we're North Carolina's largest credit union, we're still just "people helping people." We currently serve over 2.6 million members through more than 270 branch offices - and growing! Members have 24/7 access to account services from over 1,100 ATMs, as well as via phone, our website, and the SECU Mobile App. Since 1937, we've provided financial services to employees of the State of North Carolina, public boards of education, and employees of associations formed for the benefit of State employees, as well as their immediate family members. We are the trusted provider of financial services for millions of members. And, according to Forbes Magazine, we're the best credit union in North Carolina. State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) is an Equal Housing Opportunity lender and federally insured by NCUA. 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.
