Performance Test Engineer
Frost Bank2 months ago
San Antonio, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement performance testing strategies for banking applications.
- Create and execute load, stress, endurance, volume, scalability, and benchmark tests using realistic workload models.
- Analyze application and infrastructure performance to identify bottlenecks, diagnose root causes, and recommend improvements.
- Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues and optimize applications.
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support automation-first, shift-left performance engineering.
- Manage performance test environments, test data, and testing tools for accurate and repeatable execution.
- Prepare and communicate performance test results, trends, and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Support performance tuning, incident analysis, resilience testing, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or application architecture.
- Experience establishing performance testing strategies and executing load, stress, endurance, scalability, and benchmark tests.
- Experience with performance testing tools such as StresStimulus, JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or comparable technologies.
- Knowledge of performance engineering standards, methodologies, best practices, and complex performance investigations.
- Advanced expertise in database diagnostics, JVM tuning, thread and heap dump analysis, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Advanced knowledge of Java, containerized applications, APIs, microservices, and scripting languages such as Python, .NET, or Node.js.
- Proficiency with application performance monitoring and observability platforms such as Broadcom DX, Splunk, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of performance analysis and optimization for relational and NoSQL database environments.
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and implementing shift-left performance engineering practices.
- Experience with source code management and version control platforms such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-influencing skills in Agile and regulated environments.
- Preferred experience with GitHub Copilot or similar developer productivity tools; Red Hat Fuse, MuleSoft, Kafka, or IBM MQ; high-volume transactional applications; batch processing; distributed systems; resilience or chaos engineering; and mission-critical regulated applications.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- Generous holiday and paid time off schedule.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Health and wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program.
- Referral bonus program.
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About Frost Bank
Frost Bank is a Texas-based financial institution providing consumer and commercial banking, investments, and insurance to individuals and businesses across the state. It earns revenue from interest on loans and deposits, fees for treasury and wealth-management services, and insurance brokerage. Founded in 1868 and headquartered in San Antonio, it operates as the principal subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR) and ranks among the 50 largest U.S. banks by assets.