Performance Test Analyst

One of CEI's largest Healthcare clients is seeking a Performance Testing Analyst to join their growing organization!

Client/Industry: Healthcare Information Technology / Health Insurance Systems

Job Title:

Digital Performance Analyst (Performance Load Testing)

Location:

Onsite (Highly preferred) | Columbia, SC 29203

Work Schedule/Shift: Mon-Fri 8:30am to 5:00pm (Minimum 40 work hours per week; Possible overtime required)

Duration/Length of Assignment: 7 Month Contract with potential for long-term engagement (extension or hire)

Pay Rate: $49.00 per hour

Additional Information: U.S. Citizenship required; must be eligible to obtain CMS security clearance

* Must be able to convert to a full-time employee without sponsorship, restrictions, or an additional employer*

• W2 Employment Only – No Corp to Corp / C2C arrangements.
• Optional benefits available during contract (Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401k)

This role supports a large-scale cloud migration initiative focused on modernizing enterprise healthcare applications hosted within a CMS-regulated cloud environment. The position sits within a cloud migration program responsible for ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability of mission-critical applications that support healthcare operations and member-facing portals. The analyst works as part of a collaborative performance testing and quality engineering team aligned to an Agile delivery model, partnering closely with development, quality assurance, business analysis, and infrastructure teams.

The team operates within a structured reporting environment and contributes directly to ensuring cloud-hosted systems meet regulatory, security, and operational standards. From a high-level perspective, the role is responsible for validating how applications behave under real-world usage conditions, identifying performance risks before production deployment, and supporting continuous improvement across cloud-based platforms. The analyst is expected to plan, execute, and evaluate performance testing efforts, analyze results, communicate findings to stakeholders, and contribute to system tuning and optimization efforts.

The position also includes mentoring junior team members and supporting broader testing governance, documentation, and compliance-related activities across the cloud migration initiative.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience (4 years of related experience, or 2 years of related experience plus an associate degree)
• 6 years of application development or testing experience, including at least four years focused on performance testing and tuning
• Experience testing cloud-hosted applications in enterprise environments
• Ability to design, develop, and execute performance test strategies, test plans, and automated test scripts
• Hands‑on experience with performance and test automation tools including Apache JMeter, Blaze Meter, Load Runner Cloud, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, JUnit, TestNG, SoapUI, Postman, and Insomnia
• Strong understanding of performance testing concepts, key performance indicators, metrics, and testing types
• Experience identifying, tracking, and managing defects using Test Rail, JIRA, Confluence, or ALM tools
• Knowledge of application and performance monitoring tools, including AWS Cloud Watch Synthetics
• Experience supporting lift‑and‑shift, re‑platforming, or cloud migration testing initiatives
• Strong knowledge of REST and SOAP API testing, SQL, and test automation frameworks
• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub, or AWS Code Pipeline
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including EC2, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and Code Build

• Understanding of Dev Ops practices related to cloud-based analytics pipelines and deployments
• Experience with Git Hub Actions, version control workflows, and automated deployment processes
• Familiarity with additional AWS services such as Dynamo
  
  DB, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, and Artifact