Performance Tester - Remote

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a Performance Tester - Remote position with a Major Financial Services Company located remotely or in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, or San Francisco. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

Pay range: $65.00 - $75.00 per hour

Description: We are seeking leaders who will help define the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable our client to achieve its mission. This role is responsible for executing end‑to‑end performance testing, including requirements gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, and analysis, while partnering closely with development, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings a strategic, action‑oriented mindset, with strong intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and a passion for driving innovation through experimentation.

Responsibilities:

• Execute end-to-end performance testing, including requirements gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, analysis, and results reporting to stakeholders.
• Evaluate system under test (SUT) communication protocols to determine appropriate scripting approaches.
• Partner with product development, implementation, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering teams to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Design and implement load test scenarios, including load, stress, volume, and failover testing.
• Collaborate across dependent teams to ensure the successful execution of performance test cycles.
• Work with security teams and test engineers to integrate security requirements into the overall testing strategy and pipeline.
• Perform manual testing to validate vulnerabilities.
• Monitor server utilization during test execution.
• Participate in code reviews for performance test scenarios and develop/maintain test data.
• Evaluate non‑functional requirements to establish acceptance criteria.
• Analyze production logs to determine target and peak load models.
• Upload performance test scenarios and related artifacts to Subversion and/or other management tools as required.
• Coordinate with configuration management to schedule test execution and support automated software deployment.
• Maintain performance test scripts and scenarios.
• Conduct API performance testing and integrate results into CI pipelines.
• Monitor system‑level metrics during test execution.
• Develop and deliver performance test reports and analyze results.
• Gather and correlate front-end and back-end performance data to produce comprehensive reporting.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of performance testing tools.
• Utilize CI tools to support continuous integration for performance and load testing.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in performance testing, including at least 3 years on large-scale projects with minimal supervision.
• 4-6 years of hands‑on experience in performance testing, with strong knowledge of methodologies, concepts, and best practices.
• 4-6 years of experience developing and executing performance test scripts using tools such as Load Runner, Performance Center, or JMeter.
• Advanced programming knowledge in Python, JavaScript, Java, or Visual Basic.
• Experience developing performance testing scripts for MQ, Java Cloud, and AWS-based applications.
• Proven ability to execute end-to-end performance testing across requirements, planning, scripting, execution, and analysis.
• Experience designing performance tests for load, stress, spike, scalability, and volume testing.
• Strong experience applying best practices in load generation, bottleneck analysis, modeling tools, and statistical analysis.
• Experience using server monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present performance test results to product and technical teams.
• Proficiency with development tools such as Intelli
  
  J, Eclipse, and source control systems like Git or Subversion.
• Experience with advanced programming concepts (e.g.,…