Application Developer, Consultant

Job Description

Your Role

Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Performance Engineering & Testing Lead to join our Test Automation Framework Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development and Application Performance Engineering and Testing, test automation, with a passion for building robust, scalable, and efficient test frameworks. You will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps engineers to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products and high performing applications.

Responsibilities

Your Work
In this role, you will:

• Design, Develop, and maintain Performance testing scripts, automated test capabilities (test frameworks, processes, and tools) to be consumed by development teams in a self-serve fashion via the client's Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
• Review Performance testing intake requests, validate and prioritize and assign to the team. Lead performance resources ensuring team delivers high quality performance engineering capabilities
• Contribute to developing best practices for test-driven development (TDD), Early Performance Testing and testing throughout the SDLC (unit, component-level, integration, capacity, exploratory, etc.)
• Administer and support Performance /Load Testing tools such as Load Runner Enterprise/Azure Load Test, foundational test automation tools and platforms
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across all IT to integrate automated testing practices into the software development lifecycle, driving and measuring adoption and utilization of the performance test frameworks
• Engage with key IT Portfolio leads business teams to align the portfolio for agile performance testing. Play a trusted performance consultant role to IT Dev and business teams and help deriving benefits from Performance testing services and implement performance best practices.
• Prepare and maintain detailed system diagrams, technical documentation and specifications for Test Frameworks (specifically Performance, Load and Scalability Testing) as required and necessary to ensure and maintain consistently exceptional quality in our operations
• Consult, guide and assist users, developers, analysts, and leaders across all levels of the organization with performance engineering practices
• Lead and assist in ensuring compliance with our solutions and the security of company data and assets
• Participate in sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives. Lead performance testing efforts across applications, ensuring system scalability and reliability.
• Develop and maintain performance documentation including test plans, use cases, and summary reports. Analyze test results and communicate findings to business, development, and DevOps teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, automate, and execute performance test cases. Design and execute performance/load/stress test scenarios to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Integrate automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitor test results. Monitor system metrics and logs during test execution; perform root cause analysis for performance issues.
• Troubleshoot performance issues in both test and production environments

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires 7+ years of professional experience serving as a technical expert in software development, experience in performance engineering and testing, and testing automation
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript; database knowledge/experience required
• Proven experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or similar). Accessibility Testing is a plus
• Strong understanding of system architecture, application design, and performance tuning. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey technical findings to diverse audiences. Ability to lead and mentor team members, fostering a culture of performance excellence.
• Knowledge of service level objectives (SLOs), workload modeling, and performance risk management.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps and integrating performance tests into automated workflows
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus

About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.