Senior Performance Engineer – Loadrunner, Dynatrace, JMeter

Location: Buffalo, New York, United States of America; hybrid schedule with four days onsite and one day working from home per week. The bank sponsors TN and H-1B transfers on a case-by-case basis; the position is not open to F-1 student visa holders, including CPT/OPT and STEM OPT candidates.

Salary: $116,400–$194,000 annual (USD).

Company

M&T Bank is a banking organization operating in a regulated financial-services environment.

What you will do

• Lead performance engineering strategy, planning, execution, analysis, and reporting for complex, high-risk, and enterprise-scale initiatives across the SDLC.
• Design workload models, test strategies, frameworks, success criteria, and validation approaches for web, API, mobile, cloud, containerized, and distributed applications.
• Develop and maintain performance test assets and automated scripts using OpenText Core Performance Engineering, LoadRunner, JMeter, BlazeMeter, C, and related tooling.
• Lead load, stress, endurance, volume, scalability, resiliency, failover, and capacity testing under realistic and peak demand.
• Use Dynatrace and other observability tools to analyze application, infrastructure, database, network, and user-experience metrics, identify bottlenecks, and support root-cause investigations.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, governance, executive reporting, production-readiness recommendations, and capacity-planning guidance across application, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, vendor, and business teams.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience in software testing, performance engineering, software engineering, or a related technical engineering discipline.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience developing and executing enterprise performance tests with OpenText Core Performance Engineering, LoadRunner Enterprise, or LoadRunner Professional/VuGen.
• Combined minimum of 8 years of higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture.
• Strong understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle, architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.
• Advanced experience designing performance strategies, workload models, success criteria, and scenarios for complex or distributed systems.
• Advanced experience developing and maintaining performance scripts, including C-based VuGen scripting and JMeter.
• Experience analyzing application performance and investigating complex bottlenecks using APM and observability data.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams or initiatives and mentoring less-experienced engineers.
• Experience working with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, risk-management, and production-readiness processes.
• Ability to lead through influence, communicate technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences, assess risk, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with BlazeMeter, Azure Load Testing, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or comparable platforms.
• Experience testing enterprise-scale digital, mobile, API, event-driven, cloud, containerized, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure, AWS, databases, middleware, messaging, and network performance analysis.
• Financial-services or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience developing performance-engineering standards, governance, reusable frameworks, or enterprise testing practices.
• Performance testing, cloud, DevOps, software engineering, or industry-recognized technical certifications.
• Experience with GitLab or comparable CI/CD integration, test-data strategy, service virtualization, and scripting in Java, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, or comparable languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Four days in the office and one day working from home per week.
• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits, including a 401(k) match of 5%.
• Banking Officers start with 25 days of paid time off plus 12 paid holidays.
• 40 hours of paid volunteer time per year.
• Emphasis on work-life balance, engineering quality, operational stability, automation, continuous learning, and measurable improvement.