Performance & Chaos Tester

Overview

On Site
USD 130,000.00 - 185,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Marketing Operations
Optimization
Capacity Management
Virtual Machines
Network
CPU
API
Collaboration
Recovery
SQL
Cloud Computing
Reporting
Dashboard
KPI
Scalability
DevOps
Quality Assurance
Computer Networking
Performance Testing
Apache JMeter
Failover
Scripting
Python
Bash
JavaScript
Microservices
Kubernetes
Grafana
CHAOS
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Budget
Terraform
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Incident Management
Testing
High Availability
Health Care
Life Insurance
FAR
Recruiting
Military
ADA
Human Resources

Job Details

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: MO-Maryland Heights, 3-4 days onsite

Overview: Every consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group of consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. Each of these practices aligns to one of the core services offers to clients. As a Performance and Chaos Tester, you will join the Digital Modernization practice, where technology and strategy combine to deliver exceptional digital experiences, empowering organizations to thrive in today's digital market.

Responsibilities:

Performance Testing

Design and execute load, stress, soak, and scalability tests for distributed cloud services

Benchmark APIs, microservices, and data pipelines using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, k6, or equivalent

Analyze performance bottlenecks and collaborate with engineering teams on tuning, optimization, and capacity planning

Build automated performance test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines

Validate SLIs/SLOs for latency, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization

Chaos Engineering

Plan, run, and automate chaos experiments to validate system resiliency and fault tolerance

Use tools such as Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, or Google Cloud Platform-native disruption tooling

Inject failures including:

VM/pod termination

Network latency/packet loss

CPU/memory exhaustion

Dependency/API outage

Zonal or regional failover events

Create and maintain a resiliency testing playbook aligned with SRE best practices

Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering to improve fault tolerance and recovery strategies

Cloud and Infrastructure

Build testing systems and environments in Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Cloud Run)

Leverage Google Cloud Platform tools such as Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Error Reporting for SLO validation

Partner with engineering to ensure architecture supports chaos and performance testing requirements

Observability and Reporting

Develop dashboards and automated reports for performance and resiliency KPIs

Document system behavior under load and during faults

Provide clear recommendations to improve reliability, scalability, and operational readiness

Qualifications:

4-8+ years in Performance Testing, SRE, DevOps, or QA Engineering roles

Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (compute, networking, IAM, observability)

Strong background in performance testing tools: k6, Locust, Gatling, JMeter, etc.

Experience with chaos engineering tools or frameworks:

Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, PowerfulSeal, Pumba

Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (latency, scaling, failover, retry logic, circuit breakers)

Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, or JS)

Comfort testing microservices, Kubernetes workloads (GKE), and event-driven architectures

Solid understanding of monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Google Cloud Platform Monitoring)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building automated chaos experiments in CI/CD pipelines

Previous work with service mesh fault injection (Istio, Linkerd)

Familiarity with SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)

Experience with Terraform or Google Cloud Platform Deployment Manager for environment setup

Exposure to incident management, DR testing, or high availability architectures

The salary range for this role is $130,000 to $185,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

At Turnberry, inclusion is one of our core values. We are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in and focused on hiring and growing a diverse team of high performers. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better Turnberry: Turnberry is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Turnberry will provide reasonable accommodation with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please send an email to our Human Resources department at
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