Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Job Title

Pay Range: $69.24hr - $74.24hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.
• 5+ years of experience in performance testing, resiliency testing, performance engineering, or quality engineering for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with workload modeling, performance test design, resiliency test scenarios, and failover validation.
• Experience with test execution, monitoring, bottleneck analysis, recovery analysis, and results reporting.
• Experience with Neo Load or similar performance testing tools.
• Experience with CI/CD performance test automation and cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with database performance validation and large-scale data warehouse or data lake environments.
• Knowledge of scripting, programming, or query languages such as JavaScript, Java, Groovy, Python, SQL, or shell scripting.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies with emphasis on AWS-native applications, cloud scalability, and auto-scaling behavior.
• Knowledge of database technologies including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Understanding of performance testing lifecycle, SDLC, Agile delivery, and non-functional requirements validation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute end-to-end performance test strategies for enterprise applications, AWS-native applications, APIs, microservices, and data platforms.
• Define performance objectives, workload models, test data needs, test schedules, and entry and exit criteria.
• Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity tests using Neo Load and other enterprise tools.
• Automate performance test execution within CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable validation and release readiness.
• Analyze performance and resiliency test results across application, database, middleware, network, cloud, and infrastructure layers.
• Monitor key metrics such as response time, throughput, transaction volume, CPU, memory, I/O, and service degradation patterns.
• Identify bottlenecks, resiliency gaps, and performance risks to provide actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
• Support performance engineering for cloud modernization, data platform migrations, and high-volume processing solutions.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to recommend tuning opportunities and capacity improvements.
• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis for performance issues and support production incident analysis.
• Establish performance baselines, dashboards, and reporting standards.
• Mentor team members on performance testing best practices, Neo Load scripting, and cloud observability.

Skills:

• Neo Load.
• AWS.
• Performance Engineering.
• Resiliency Testing.
• CI/CD Automation.
• Workload Modeling.
• PostgreSQL.
• Data Warehouse.
• Data Lake.
• API Testing.
• Microservices.
• JavaScript.
• Java.
• Python.
• SQL.
• Shell Scripting.
• Cloud Observability.

Qualification And

Education:

• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong experience with cloud monitoring tools and continuous delivery processes.
• Knowledge of code quality and promotion practices.