Sr. Quality Engineer - Performance & Automation (Contract

Job Title: Sr. Quality Engineer - Performance & Automation (Contract)
Location: Columbus, OH
Work Model: Hybrid preferred - Tuesday through Thursday onsite, Monday and Friday remote
Rate: $70-$80/hour
Contract Term: August 17, 2026 - August 16, 2027
Possibility of Extension: Yes
Employment Type: W-2 Only
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens Only | Green Card holders also eligible; no visa sponsorship available

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Quality Engineer - Performance & Automation to support enterprise technology initiatives through hands-on performance engineering and test automation. This role will serve as a shared quality engineering resource across multiple strategic programs and platforms, with an initial focus on the Work and Asset Management (WAM) portfolio.

The Sr. Quality Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, executing, and maintaining automated and performance testing solutions that improve application quality, reduce delivery risk, and support successful project releases. This role will partner closely with project teams, developers, business analysts, test leads, infrastructure teams, and enterprise quality stakeholders to identify testing needs, troubleshoot issues, analyze results, and implement scalable testing solutions.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with both test automation and performance engineering
, including tools such as Tricentis Tosca and Neo Load
, along with experience testing SAP, Salesforce, web, API, integration, and cloud-based applications. Utility industry experience is preferred.

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, scalability, endurance, and volume testing activities.
• Create and maintain reusable performance test assets, scripts, scenarios, and frameworks using Neo Load and enterprise-standard performance testing tools.
• Analyze performance test results to identify application, infrastructure, database, integration, API, and cloud-related bottlenecks.
• Define performance baselines, success criteria, thresholds, and release readiness recommendations.
• Support performance testing across SAP, Salesforce, web, API, integration, and cloud-based platforms.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and delivery teams to troubleshoot performance issues and validate remediation actions.
• Communicate performance findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites using Tricentis Tosca and related automation technologies.
• Expand automation coverage across business-critical workflows, regression testing activities, and enterprise application releases.
• Develop automated testing solutions for web applications, APIs, SAP, Salesforce, and enterprise integrations.
• Maintain automation assets to ensure accuracy, reusability, scalability, and alignment with project needs.
• Support automation framework enhancements, execution optimization, reporting improvements, and test coverage expansion.
• Contribute to CI/CD and continuous testing initiatives by integrating automated testing into delivery pipelines where applicable.

• Support multiple enterprise initiatives as a hands-on performance and automation quality engineering resource.
• Partner with project teams to identify automation opportunities, performance testing needs, testing risks, and release readiness concerns.
• Develop reusable testing assets, scripts, frameworks, and standards that improve quality and efficiency across programs.
• Troubleshoot test execution issues, automation failures, performance defects, and integration-related problems.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to support test execution, defect resolution, quality reviews, and deployment readiness.
• Provide technical guidance related to Tosca
  , Neo Load
  , automation best practices, and performance testing approaches.

• Support testing activities for complex enterprise platforms, including SAP, Salesforce, web, API, integration, and cloud-based applications.
• Test REST and SOAP APIs, enterprise integrations, distributed application workflows, and end-to-end business processes.
• Validate performance and automation coverage across interconnected systems and business-critical workflows.
• Support quality engineering needs across the WAM portfolio and other strategic enterprise initiatives as assigned.
• Work with delivery teams to ensure test strategies account for upstream/downstream dependencies, data needs, integration points, and business process impacts.

• Analyze test results, performance trends, automation outcomes, defects, and execution data.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, summaries, and recommendations related to testing progress, risks, quality metrics, and release readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve test automation coverage, performance testing maturity,…