Senior Performance Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Performance Engineer, LoadRunner/JMeter, Splunk, AppDynamics, Playwright, Automation Tools

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer.

In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Define & implement Performance test strategy for adopting microservices architecture & Cloud native applications

• Implement light weight, open source and cloud supported Performance testing frameworks

• Good exposure to Playwright and Test Automation tools like Octane and Hyper Execute

• Strong expertise in performance testing, including script development, execution, analysis, and reporting using LoadRunner.

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining JMeter test scripts for performance, load, and stress testing.

• Proficient in leveraging Blaze meter for test execution, performance monitoring, test management, and scalability assessments.

• Hands-on experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk Observability Cloud (SPOC), Grafana, and Prometheus.

• Proficient in writing and optimizing Splunk queries for application log analysis, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.

• Knowledge of Chaos Engineering principles, with hands-on experience or exposure to chaos testing tools for validating system resilience under failure scenarios.

• Experience in integrating performance testing tools with CI/CD pipelines to enable automated performance validation and continuous quality assurance.

• Strong coding ability in at least one language (Python, Java, C++).

• Implement & support Network & Service Virtualization

• Collaboratively work with application teams to implement Enterprise Monitoring & Logging standards w.r.to AppDynamics & Splunk

• Creates, prepares, and conducts SPLI quality assurance reviews and develops standard Test Methodology test plans

• Perform SPLI tests to ensure all deliverables are production ready and as per SLAs

• Provide technical guidance of performance testing to application developers, architects, business partners and management

• Troubleshoot and resolve Performance Engineering issues concurrently on multiple projects

• Have deep knowledge on Heap Memory and Garbage collection concepts and practical experience of configuring them

• Experience and Exposure to DevOps tools like Maven, GitHub, Harness, Artifactory, Sonar and Jenkins

• Be abreast of the Technological developments happening in the market and enlighten/educate the PT team

• Train new team members on Performance testing & Engineering and methodology

• Participate in driving initiatives within the Platform group

• Exposure and experience in Agile development life cycle
  Basic knowledge on DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Development activities.

• Good to have Cloud based performance Testing experience

• Good to have certification on Load Runner or other performance Testing/Engineering tools and Application performance Monitoring tools

Posting End Date: 

7 Jul 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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