• Build and lead a high-performing team of Performance Engineers and SDETs. • Define the vision and roadmap for performance engineering, load testing, and automated testing across BambooHR’s product ecosystem. • Drive a unified quality engineering strategy that blends performance, reliability, observability, and automation. • Mentor and develop engineers, creating growth paths and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and craftsmanship. • Own the performance engineering discipline, including system-level performance, scalability, latency, and capacity modeling. • Oversee load, stress, and chaos/performance experiments aligned to product SLAs and SLOs. • Partner with Platform and DevEx Engineering to strengthen observability tooling, metrics, and dashboards. • Build frameworks and processes to proactively detect performance issues before they reach production. • Lead development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing. • Evolve testing practices to shift-left quality signals into CI/CD pipelines. • Establish standards for test coverage, automation ROI, and quality metrics. • Collaborate with engineering teams to embed automated quality practices into daily workflows. • Partner with Engineering to ensure performance and automation platforms integrate seamlessly into development ecosystems. • Work with Product Management to define performance requirements, benchmarks, and quality gates. • Coordinate with SRE/Platform teams to align on capacity planning, infrastructure improvements, and production insights.