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- Engineering Lead building performance, resilience, and observability testing for Vancity’s member-owned credit union platforms. Leading Performance SDETs and embedding automation into CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality engineering capabilities for performance, scalability, reliability, resilience, observability, and operational readiness of member-facing platforms
- Translate non-functional quality strategy, standards, and technical direction into executable plans
- Design and implement scalable, data-driven validation approaches and quality metrics
- Implement quality gates within Dev-owned CI/CD pipelines
- Develop enterprise approaches for performance and resilience-testing datasets, including synthetic data generation, masking, and anonymization
- Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry capabilities with engineering teams
- Support release-readiness reviews by validating non-functional requirements and operational risks
- Provide hands-on technical leadership to the Quality Engineering team and Performance SDET community
- Coach Performance SDETs through coding, design, engineering, and analysis
- Design, build, and evolve scalable performance-testing frameworks and reusable tooling
- Establish load, stress, endurance, spike, capacity, and volume testing approaches
- Develop workload models representing member behavior, application usage, and transaction profiles
- Analyze performance bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure
- Define performance SLAs, SLOs, and system-capacity targets with engineering teams
- Implement AI-assisted and agentic testing approaches
- Lead resilience testing using fault injection, failure simulation, and chaos engineering
- Validate disaster recovery, failover, high availability, and business continuity capabilities
- Support incident post-mortems and root-cause analysis
- Advocate for shift-left performance and reliability engineering practices
- Build automation frameworks, utilities, and CI/CD integrations for non-functional validation
- Evaluate emerging AI-assisted testing and intelligent quality-engineering technologies
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, or a related field
- Extensive experience leading enterprise-scale non-functional testing initiatives as a senior technical contributor or Performance SDET
- Deep expertise in performance-engineering methodologies, workload modelling, capacity planning, and scalability testing
- Hands-on experience designing and evolving performance-testing frameworks using k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, NeoLoad, or equivalent
- Experience implementing resilience and chaos-engineering practices using Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit, Azure Chaos Studio, or equivalent
- Strong understanding of API architectures, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and on-premise or cloud-native applications
- Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript, C#, or Java
- Proven experience designing, building, and evolving performance-testing frameworks
- Experience with AI-powered testing or test generation, including LLMs, agentic, and spec-driven automation
- Experience with CI/CD platforms including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, AWS or Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of database-performance concepts across relational and NoSQL technologies
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or Azure Monitor
- Ability to work in British Columbia or Ontario
- Collaborative, analytical, engineering-minded, and innovative approach
Benefits
- Annual incentive program eligibility
- Flexible benefit packages for permanent employees
- 3–4 weeks of vacation per year, with additional days earned over time
- 2 extra statutory holidays beyond BC’s 11 statutory holidays
- Care days for personal or family illness
- Health and dental benefits from the hire date
- Three levels of health and dental coverage
- Defined benefit pension with guaranteed income for life
- Inclusive hiring and career development programs for Indigenous, Black, or Trans candidates
- Recruitment accommodations and support
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