Performance Test Engineer Lead
Charlotte, Michigan, United States of America
Contract
3 weeks ago
$55 - $60 USD
Key skills
JavaSQL.NETAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesOpenShiftSplunkAppDynamicsCI/CD
About this role
We are Hiring for below position
Role: Performance Test Engineer Lead
Location: Charlotte, NC
Client: Wells Fargo (We are working with Prime Vendor)
Only Local Candidate
In-Person Interview
Visa: Independent Candidate
Contract W2 Role No C2C or C2H
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, and workload models.
- Design and implement performance test strategies for migration validation.
- Develop and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner and JMeter.
- Execute performance tests using LoadRunner and/or BlazeMeter.
- Design workload distribution models based on business usage patterns.
- Conduct performance validation for applications migrating to new data center environments.
- Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysis across application, middleware, infrastructure, and database layers.
- Work with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics and Splunk for root cause analysis.
- Validate scalability, reliability, and resilience in containerized/OpenShift environments.
- Plan and execute Chaos Engineering experiments to validate system stability under failure conditions.
- Provide performance tuning recommendations to development and infrastructure teams.
- Prepare detailed performance reports and executive summaries.
- Support rapid onboarding of applications where performance testing is being conducted for the first time.
Requirements:
Performance Engineering
- Strong experience in NFR gathering and performance strategy definition.
- Expertise in performance scripting using:
o LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis)
o Apache JMeter
- Experience executing tests using:
o LoadRunner
o BlazeMeter
- Strong knowledge of workload modeling and test scenario design.
- Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.
- Monitoring & Analysis
- Hands-on experience with:
o AppDynamics
o Splunk
- Strong capability in performance diagnostics and bottleneck identification.
- Experience analyzing CPU, memory, thread pools, connection pools, logs, and SQL performance.
Technology Stack Exposure
- Java-based applications
- .NET applications
- Containerized environments (OpenShift/Kubernetes preferred)
- Microservices architecture understanding
- Chaos Engineering
- Experience designing and executing controlled failure experiments using Gremlin
- or Chaos Mesh
- Ability to validate resilience, failover, and recovery scenarios.
Preferred, but not required:
- Experience in Data Center Migration performance validation.
- Experience testing applications undergoing infrastructure refresh or cloud
- Familiarity with CI/CD integrated performance testing.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform) is an advantage.
- Experience handling performance testing for applications where no historical
- baseline exists.