Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Concora Credit•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

As a Performance Test Engineer, you’ll help drive Concora Credit’s Mission to enable customers to Do More with Credit – every single day. The impact you’ll have at Concora Credit: We are seeking a Performance Test Engineer to strengthen the resilience, reliability, and performance of our systems. In this role, you will define monitoring and observability requirements, interpret system health data, and validate fault tolerance through chaos engineering practices. Partnering closely with SRE, development, and infrastructure teams, you will ensure our applications are observable, scalable, and resilient under real-world conditions. A motivated, inquisitive self-starter, you will design and execute experiments that surface vulnerabilities and ensure issues are addressed before they impact production. If you are a customer-centric individual with a passion for quality and a knack for managing complex testing initiatives, we encourage you to apply for this role. We hire people, not positions. That's because, at Concora Credit, we put people first, including our customers, partners, and Team Members. Concora Credit is guided by a single purpose: to help non-prime customers do more with credit. Today, we have helped millions of customers access credit. Our industry leadership, resilience, and willingness to adapt ensure we can help our partners responsibly say yes to millions more. As a company grounded in entrepreneurship, we're looking to expand our team and are looking for people who foster innovation, strive to make an impact, and want to Do More! We’re an established company with over 20 years of experience, but now we’re taking things to the next level. We're seeking someone who wants to impact the business and play a pivotal role in leading the charge for change.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Computer Science (or equivalent) plus 5+ years hands-on performance test engineering experience.
Strong understanding of observability concepts and ability to define monitoring/alerting requirements.
Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g., Azure Chaos Studio, Gremlin, Litmus, or custom frameworks).
Familiarity with performance/load testing frameworks (e.g., JMeter, k6, Gatling) and CI/CD integration.
Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Performance Monitoring & Observability Define observability and performance monitoring requirements in partnership with the SRE team.
Leverage existing monitoring and APM tools (e.g., Azure AppInsights, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic) to evaluate system performance and identify areas for improvement.
Use dashboards, alerts, and metrics from monitoring tools (i.e. AppInsights, SEQ, etc.) to detect bottlenecks, outages, and performance degradations.
Provide performance trend analysis to support capacity planning and reliability improvements. For example: user growth rate, daily active users (DAUs), monthly active users (MAUs), session length Chaos Engineering & Resilience Testing
Design and execute controlled failure scenarios (e.g., outages, latency, load stress) to validate system reliability.
Define steady-state metrics and analyze experiment results, driving improvements in fault tolerance and recovery.
Integrate chaos experiments into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for continuous resilience validation.
Utilize tools such as Azure Chaos Studio, Gremlin, or custom scripts to simulate real-world disruptions.
Ensure chaos activities adhere to governance, risk, and security policies.
Analyze test results, document findings, and work with teams to implement fault tolerance and recovery improvements.
Support performance testing efforts and assist in capacity planning.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement Collaborate with DevOps, SMEs, and developers to troubleshoot performance issues.
Collaborate with SMEs, DevOPs, and developers to identify high-risk components and failure points.
Partner with SRE, DevOps, QA, and delivery teams to embed resilience and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Establish service-level objectives (SLOs) and reliability targets in alignment with business needs.
Contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Advocate for resilience best practices and help teams anticipate and mitigate failure scenarios.
These duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family
Relax and recharge with Paid Time Off (PTO)
6 company-observed paid holidays, plus 3 paid floating holidays
401k (after 90 days) plus employer match up to 4%
Pet Insurance for your furry family members
Wellness perks including onsite fitness equipment at both locations, EAP, and access to the Headspace App
We invest in your future through Tuition Reimbursement
Save on taxes with Flexible Spending Accounts
Peace of mind with Life and AD&D Insurance
Protect yourself with company-paid Long-Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability
Concora Credit provides equal employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Employment-based visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Concora Credit is an equal opportunity employer (EEO).
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