Lead Engineer, Performance Testing

Roadie, a UPS Company, is a crowdsourced delivery platform. Founded in 2014, Roadie works with consumers, small businesses and enterprises across virtually every industry to enable scheduled, same day and urgent delivery in passenger vehicles across the U.S.  With more than 200,000 drivers nationwide, Roadie reaches more than 20,000 zip codes – the largest local same-day delivery network in the nation. 

Our innovative engineers are building technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. We are looking for a Lead Engineer to develop and execute on a performance testing strategy that measures real-world workloads, ensuring the release of high quality code in a fast-paced CI/CD environment, and ensuring our technology can support rapid business growth.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the design, development, and execution of load and performance testing
• Lead a talented team of test engineers in building load and performance testing suites 
• Continually compare performance tests against production loads to ensure correct behavior
• Identify, isolate, document performance regressions and bottlenecks
• Recommend tool, process, and testing methodology improvements
• Monitor and analyze infrastructure performance during testing runs to accurately estimate capacity requirements for normal and peak volumes
• Design and build scripts that are flexible enough to change throughout a testing project quickly and efficiently with no or minimal impact to the project schedule
• Design and implement key customer performance simulation scripts to help project teams effectively simulate specific scenarios, allowing project teams to isolate and identify root causes for production problems.
• Review complex infrastructure production metrics assisting with identification and isolation of performance or capacity related problems in production

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience
• 7+ years experience in a QA Engineer role, ideally with a focus on performance testing
• Strong background with Python or Javascript
• Expertise with software performance testing tools (JMeter, Blazemeter, Loadrunner, Locust, k6)
• Ability to extract data and metrics from SQL databases to evaluate performance of tests
• Breadth of experience and industry knowledge with testing methodologies and testing approaches
• Thrives in fast-paced environment, with ability to operate within short release-cycles
• Detail-oriented nature with strong discipline for adhering to guidelines

Why Roadie? 

• Competitive compensation packages 
• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
• 401k with company match
• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!) 
• Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO 
• Monthly 3-day weekends
• Monthly WFH stipend 
• Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
• The technology you need to get the job done