Manager, Performance and Test Engineering

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• Grafana
• Selenium

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
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