Performance Test Engineer

About the role

As a Performance Test Engineer at Frost, you’ll develop and implement testing strategies for banking applications in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment. You’ll join a team committed to integrity, excellence, and fostering a thriving career both in and out of work, contributing to Frost’s 150-year legacy of unparalleled banking services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement performance testing strategies for banking applications to evaluate scalability, reliability, and system resilience.
• Create and execute performance test scenarios, including load, stress, endurance, and volume testing, using realistic workload models based on production usage and business requirements.
• Analyze application and infrastructure performance using monitoring and observability tools to identify bottlenecks, diagnose root causes, and recommend performance improvements.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues and optimize application performance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support automation-first, shift-left testing practices to improve software quality and delivery.
• Manage performance test environments, test data, and testing tools to ensure accurate, repeatable, and reliable test execution.
• Prepare and communicate performance test results, trends, and recommendations to stakeholders while supporting continuous improvement through performance tuning, incident analysis, and performance engineering best practices.
• Operate with Integrity, Caring, and Excellence to achieve all-win outcomes.

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 with demonstrated success establishing performance testing strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and benchmark performance tests using tools such as StresStimulus, JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or comparable technologies.
• Knowledge of performance engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices, leading complex performance investigations, and influencing application architecture and technology decisions.
• Advanced technical expertise in performance analysis and root cause identification, including database diagnostics, JVM tuning, thread and heap dump analysis, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Advanced technical knowledge of Java, containerized applications, APIs, microservices, and scripting languages such as Python, .NET, or Node.js.
• Proficiency with application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platforms such as Broadcom DX, Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools to analyze and correlate performance test results.
• Deep knowledge of performance analysis and optimization techniques for relational and NoSQL database environments.
• Proven ability to integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left performance engineering practices.
• Strong background utilizing source code management and version control platforms such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with experience in Agile and regulated environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience using AI or developer productivity tools, such as GitHub Copilot or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with enterprise integration technologies such as Red Hat Fuse, MuleSoft, Kafka, or IBM MQ.
• Experience testing high-volume transactional applications, batch processing, or distributed systems.
• Exposure to resilience testing, fault tolerance, or chaos engineering practices.
• Background supporting high-availability, mission-critical applications in a regulated environment.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and recommend performance improvements through data-driven analysis.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) matching.
• Generous holiday and paid time off schedule.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Extensive health and wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program.
• Referral bonus program.