Performance Test Engineer - Lead - Only W2 (No C2C through any Employer / third party)

Hi All,

We are immediately hiring for a Performance Test Engineer - Lead role in Charlotte, NC-HYBRID position

Interview mode will Be F2F / In-Person

Please go through the JD shared below and share your updated resume along with your contact details ASAP.

Important: No C2C/1099 through any vendor company to waste each other's time and efforts only local W2 candidates who can join us on W2 basis or through their own Corp., all others will be rejected immediately.

NOTE: Candidates applying with fake experience OR Fake visa will be reported to USCIS.

Role: Performance Test Engineer Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC

Long Term Contract

Interview Mode: In-Person / F2F

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: LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis) , Apache JMeter
• Experience executing tests using: LoadRunner , BlazeMeter
• Strong knowledge of workload modeling and test scenario design.
• Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.
• Monitoring & Analysis
• Hands-on experience with: AppDynamics , 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.

Thanks & Regards

Prabhash

SYSTEMEDGE USA LLC