Senior Performance Test Engineer - Grand Rapids, MI

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This role is onsite in Grand Rapids, MI.

We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to lead and manage end-to-end performance engineering delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in performance optimization, team leadership, and stakeholder management, with hands‑on experience in performance testing tools and cloud platforms.

Your role

• Lead and manage a team of performance engineers and SMEs, providing guidance, mentorship, and ensuring high performance and professional growth.
• Drive end-to-end performance engineering delivery, innovation in performance testing space, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to SAFe methodologies as a certified Agile practitioner.
• Perform performance bottleneck detection, root cause analysis (RCA), and collaborate with product and development teams to track and remediate performance issues.
• Experienced in performance engineering for distributed systems/microservices (K8s/Docker-based applications).
• Performance testing of POS devices and backend services (payment gateways, inventory systems, cloud APIs).
• Familiarity with message queues (Kafka), caches (Redis), and databases performance tuning.
• Optimize and monitor native mobile applications for performance, profiling, and resource utilization.

• 10+ years of experience in performance engineering, with 4+ years managing end-to-end delivery and driving innovation.
• Hands‑on experience with Load Runner and JMeter; knowledge of other industry‑standard tools desirable.
• Expertise in at least one APM tool (Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Perf Mon, Splunk, JProfiler) and strong root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with native mobile application performance optimization and monitoring.
• Exposure to Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with architects and developers for requirement gathering.
• Nice to have:
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration of performance testing.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices performance tuning.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $86,900 - $203,800.

Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.

The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.

• Geographic location
• Education and qualifications
• Certifications and licenses
• Relevant experience and skills
• Seniority and performance
• Market and business consideration
• Internal pay equity

It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.

In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy:
  Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, company paid holidays, personal days, sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

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