Manager, Performance and Test Engineering

Job Description: • Build and lead a high-performing team of Performance Engineers and SDETs. • Define the vision and roadmap for performance engineering, load testing, and automated testing across BambooHR’s product ecosystem. • Drive a unified quality engineering strategy that blends performance, reliability, observability, and automation. • Mentor and develop engineers, creating growth paths and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and craftsmanship. • Own the performance engineering discipline, including system-level performance, scalability, latency, and capacity modeling. • Oversee load, stress, and chaos/performance experiments aligned to product SLAs and SLOs. • Partner with Platform and DevEx Engineering to strengthen observability tooling, metrics, and dashboards. • Build frameworks and processes to proactively detect performance issues before they reach production. • Lead development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing. • Evolve testing practices to shift-left quality signals into CI/CD pipelines. • Establish standards for test coverage, automation ROI, and quality metrics. • Collaborate with engineering teams to embed automated quality practices into daily workflows. • Partner with Engineering to ensure performance and automation platforms integrate seamlessly into development ecosystems. • Work with Product Management to define performance requirements, benchmarks, and quality gates. • Coordinate with SRE/Platform teams to align on capacity planning, infrastructure improvements, and production insights. Requirements: • 7+ years in Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, SDET leadership, or related fields. • 3+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams (SDET or performance-focused). • Strong hands-on understanding of performance engineering: profiling, benchmarking, systems analysis, test design, and result interpretation. • Deep experience with modern test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, API automation). • Solid understanding of observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) and tools (e.g., Datadog, Rollbar, Grafana, etc…). • Experience building automated quality signals into CI/CD pipelines. Benefits: • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance • Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life • 401k plans with up to 6% company match • $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus • EAP through Headspace • Check out all our benefits that benefit you