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What You'll Do
We are looking for a skilled SDET/Performance Test Engineer to join our QA teams in enhancing application performance. You will leverage existing automation knowledge to help guide the automation front here at BambooHR. You will be directly shaping the future of the QA department in an industry leading and one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the nation.
In this role, you will:
- 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
What You Need to Get the Job Done
- 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
What Will Make Us REALLY Love You
- 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
What You'll Love About Us
- Great Company Culture. We’ve been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, Salt Lake Tribune, Glassdoor, & Comparably for our great workplace culture
- Make an Impact. We care about your individuality by giving you freedom to grow and create within the company, regardless of your position
- Rest and Relaxation. 4 weeks paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and we pay you to go on vacation (ask us about this)!
- Health Benefits. Medical with HSA and FSA options, dental, and vision
- Prepare for the Future. 401(k) with a generous company match, access to a personal financial planner, and both legal and life insurance
- Financial Peace University. We pay for a one year subscription and you walk away with financial savvy and a bonus
- Give back. Get paid to give your time to the community: ask us about this!
- Educational Benefits. Whether you are a previous student, or currently enrolled in higher education, we can help cover some of those expenses
- In-Person Onboarding! All new hires get to experience our in-person onboarding class, Bamboo Beginnings, at our Draper, UT headquarters! Ask us more about Bamboo Beginnings!
- Flexible Work Models. In-office, work-from-home, or hybrid, depending on position and location
About Us
Our mission is simple: we want to set people free to do meaningful work. People love our software—and it turns out that people love working here too. We've been recognized as a "Best Company to Work For” and we're proud of our team for creating software that makes an impact in the lives of HR pros and employees all over the world.
BambooHR is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you would like to request accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
BambooHR is An Equal Opportunity Employer--M/F/D/V
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