Hiring: Director, Performance Engineering and Test Automation Company: Stellarus Location: California, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:01:43 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD, Cloud Native, Event-Driven, Integration Testing, Kubernetes, Load Testing, Make, Microservices, PATs, Performance Testing, TestNG About the job Required Skills: •The Stellarus Technology team builds and operates the platform, services, and products that support payer operations, member experiences, customer integrations, and internal product delivery. The Director, Performance Engineering and Test Automation will report to the VP, Engineering. In this role, you will create the automated performance and reliability validation systems that give engineering teams clear evidence before services reach production. •You will own the strategy and implementation for performance testing, load testing, scalability validation, resilience testing, synthetic monitoring, test data automation, and release gates across the Stellarus platform. You will work directly with developers to define the standards, patterns, tooling, and expectations teams use when they design, build, test, and operate services, including where AI and AI-assisted engineering tools can improve quality, speed, and signal. •This is a new role for a builder who can define the practice, implement the tooling, partner with engineering teams, and create a culture where performance and reliability are validated continuously. The role combines performance engineering, platform quality, automation, observability, and production readiness. •Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning. •Responsibilities •In This Role, You Will •Build the performance engineering and automated testing function for Stellarus' cloud-native platform. •Design and implement fully automated performance, load, stress, soak, regression, and scalability test systems for services, APIs, workflows, and products. •Establish automated quality gates in CI/CD so teams get clear feedback before code reaches production-like environments. •Define service-level performance expectations, test coverage standards, baseline thresholds, release criteria, and escalation paths for performance regressions. •Partner directly with developers to define practical standards for testing microservices, event-driven workflows, APIs, customer-facing applications, and internal platform services. •Use AI-assisted tools where they make sense to accelerate test generation, synthetic scenario creation, log analysis, regression detection, documentation, and developer feedback loops. •Create production-like test environments, test data strategies, traffic models, synthetic workloads, and repeatable test scenarios that reflect real healthcare payer workflows. •Use observability data to connect test results to system behavior, including latency, throughput, error rates, queue depth, resource saturation, database performance, cold starts, retries, and downstream failures. •Help teams identify bottlenecks in application code, APIs, database queries, infrastructure, Kubernetes configuration, service-to-service calls, and event processing. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!