Xebia is looking for a Senior QA Automation & Performance Testing Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will define and implement a modern performance testing strategy, focusing on critical customer journeys. You will lead the team in delivering this strategy, requiring a strong blend of technical expertise and leadership.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and own an end-to-end performance test strategy and roadmap.
- Build and maintain journey-based performance tests for key user flows and business-critical scenarios.
- Define performance benchmarks (SLAs/SLOs), run performance baselines, and provide actionable analysis and reporting.
- Set up and evolve monitoring/observability practices to support performance testing and diagnosis.
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery processes.
- Lead, guide, and mentor the team on modern performance engineering practices and tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and other stakeholders to align on performance goals and drive adoption of the new approach.
- Support the transition from the current team/approach by influencing change and ensuring continuity of delivery.
What We're Looking For
- At least 5 years of experience in software test automation and strong performance testing knowledge.
- Multi-year hands-on experience in non-functional testing, with a strong focus on performance testing.
- Proven experience with journey-based performance testing and performance test design for real user scenarios.
- Experience with performance benchmarking, test execution, analysis, and communicating results to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with monitoring/observability concepts and using monitoring data to troubleshoot performance issues.
- Practical experience incorporating performance testing into CI/CD and release processes (continuous delivery).
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to lead change and align multiple teams around a new performance testing approach.
- Ability to lead and guide a team, including mentoring and setting quality standards.
- Upper intermediate/advanced English (B2/C1).
- Immediate availability or a short notice period is preferred.
- Work from EU and a work permit to work from EU are required.
Nice to Have
- Experience in the parcelling domain.
Team & Environment
At Xebia, we value smart tech, real ownership, and continuous growth. Our community supports tech communities, organizes meetups (Software Talks, Data Tech Talks), and has a culture that actively supports your growth via Guilds, Labs, and personal development budgets — for both tech and soft skills.
Work Mode
This role is based locally within your country in the EU.
Xebia is an equal opportunity employer.
