Senior Automation Test Engineer, Performance
Apply NowCompany: Otter.ai
Location: Mountain View, CA 94040
Description:
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about crafting products that users and team members love to engage with? We're seeking an individual who is enthusiastic about the power of voice and eager to redefine communication, collaboration, and idea sharing with our AI-powered collaborative note-taking app. As our core product gains rapid adoption, this role will play a pivotal part in enhancing how people and teams communicate. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and agile startup environment and is committed to delivering high-quality product experiences.
Your impact
We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.
With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world's leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are dedicated to inclusivity.
*Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate.
Salary range
Salary Range: $140,000 to $175,000 USD per year.
This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.
Are you passionate about crafting products that users and team members love to engage with? We're seeking an individual who is enthusiastic about the power of voice and eager to redefine communication, collaboration, and idea sharing with our AI-powered collaborative note-taking app. As our core product gains rapid adoption, this role will play a pivotal part in enhancing how people and teams communicate. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and agile startup environment and is committed to delivering high-quality product experiences.
Your impact
- Develop, design, and execute comprehensive performance testing strategies for Web, API, and Mobile applications.
- Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks, ensuring system scalability and reliability.
- Automate performance testing scripts using industry-standard tools and frameworks.
- Conduct load and stress testing to simulate real-world usage and identify system limits.
- Analyze performance test results, provide detailed insights, and recommend optimizations.
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for early detection of performance issues.
- Document test plans, methodologies, and results for stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Has 5+ years of experience in performance testing with a focus on automation, load testing, and stress testing.
- Is proficient in tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or similar performance testing frameworks.
- Has strong experience with Python scripting to develop automated performance tests.
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of system performance metrics, including latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
- Can work with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, or Grafana to analyze system performance.
- Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Excels in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and DevOps.
- Possesses excellent communication skills to articulate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.
With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world's leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are dedicated to inclusivity.
*Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate.
Salary range
Salary Range: $140,000 to $175,000 USD per year.
This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.