Job Description:We are seeking a
Performance Test Engineer who helps teams build fast, stable, and scalable services and web experiences. This role focuses on designing, executing, and evolving performance tests that provide fast feedback, uncover risks early, and protect the customer experience under real-world conditions.
You'll work closely with delivery teams to embed performance thinking into everyday engineering-well before release time. Rather than testing at the end, you'll help teams validate latency, scalability, and resilience continuously through automation, CI/CD integration, and observability-driven insights.
You'll begin by learning our service landscape, React front-end architecture, customer journeys, and operational patterns. From there, you'll design and execute
k6-based performance tests (JavaScript), support
Playwright-driven synthetic journeys, and help teams interpret results to make informed engineering decisions.
This is not a siloed performance role. Delivery teams own quality and performance. Your role is to
enable, implement, and operationalize performance testing so it becomes a natural part of how teams build and release software.
Your mission is clear: help ensure our applications remain responsive, resilient, and reliable-especially when it matters most.
What You'll Contribute
- Performance testing embedded early in development and design
- Reliable, repeatable performance automation across services and UI
- Clear visibility into latency, throughput, and scalability risks
- Actionable performance feedback integrated into CI/CD
- Strong collaboration between QE, Engineering, and SRE
What Will You Do?Apply a Performance-First Mindset
- Participate in design and refinement discussions to understand performance expectations and risks
- Help translate customer experience goals into measurable performance targets
- Identify performance risks related to service dependencies, data access, caching, and front-end rendering
Design and Execute Performance Tests
- Build and maintain performance, load, stress, and endurance tests
- Develop realistic workload models that reflect production usage patterns
- Execute tests across APIs, microservices, event flows, and web journeys
Support Performance Engineering Across Services and Web
- Create reusable test scripts, templates, and utilities
- Contribute to shared performance testing standards and practices
- Help teams interpret test results and identify meaningful bottlenecks
Performance Testing in CI/CD
- Integrate automated performance checks into pipelines
- Support baseline creation, regression detection, and fail-fast signals
- Maintain version-controlled performance-as-code assets
Strengthen Observability and Diagnostics
- Use observability tools to analyze performance test results
- Correlate performance metrics with logs, traces, and user experience data
- Assist in investigating performance regressions and incidents
Support Scalability and Readiness
- Participate in readiness activities for major releases and peak traffic events
- Validate behavior under load, including retries, timeouts, caching, and rate limits
- Help confirm systems meet defined non-functional requirements (NFRs)
QualificationsRequired
- 8 years of experience in Performance Testing, Quality Engineering, or Software Engineering
- Hands-on experience with performance/load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Neoload, Locust, or similar)
- Experience writing performance tests using JavaScript or similar scripting languages
- Understanding of API testing (REST; GraphQL a plus)
- Experience executing stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution
- Basic understanding of cloud-native architectures (containers, Kubernetes concepts)
- Ability to analyze test results and communicate findings clearly
- Strong collaboration skills in Agile, cross-functional teams
Preferred
- Experience running performance tests in containerized or Kubernetes environments
- Exposure to Playwright or similar tools for synthetic user journeys
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with React-based front-end applications
- Experience with backend services (e.g., Spring Boot)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Why This Role Matters- Your work directly protects the customer experience during high-traffic and critical moments
- You'll help teams catch performance risks early-before they reach production
- You'll contribute to a modern, engineering-led quality culture
- You'll grow your skills in performance engineering, automation, and observability
- You'll collaborate with engineers who value quality, learning, and shared ownership
Benefits & Perks As an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) associate, you'll be eligible to participate in a variety of benefit programs designed to fit you and your lifestyle. A&F Co. is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive benefits that align with our company's culture and values, but most importantly - with you! We also provide competitive incentives to reward the commitment our associates have for moving our global business forward:
- Incentive bonus program
- 401(K) savings plan with company match
- Annual companywide review process
- Flexible spending accounts
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Associate assistance program
- Paid parental and adoption leave
- Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
- Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Mobile Stipend
- Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
- Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are "work from anywhere" days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
- Seven associate wellness half days per year
- Merchandise discount on all of our brands
- Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
- Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
- Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!
