Performance Testing Engineer

Thunderhawk Technology Partners
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Job Details
Skills
- PERFORMANCE
- LOADRUNNER
- JMETER
- GATLING
- K6
- STRESSTIMULUS
- JVM
- JAVA
- SPLUNK
- BROADCOM
- DYNATRACE
- TELEMETRY
- OBSERVABILITY
Summary
Location: San Antonio, TX (100% onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Experience: 7+ years
Role Overview: The consultant will lead performance engineering initiatives across distributed applications, establishing standards and best practices while driving end-to-end performance testing, analysis, and tuning in a cloud-native, containerized environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop performance engineering standards, strategies, and best practices.
- Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and benchmark tests for distributed applications.
- Perform deep root-cause analysis using JVM analysis, thread/heap dumps, DB diagnostics, infra monitoring, and observability tooling to resolve bottlenecks.
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and champion shift-left practices.
- Tune and optimize distributed applications running on OpenShift/Kubernetes (or similar platforms).
- Lead complex performance investigations and influence app, infra, and architecture decisions.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on expertise in Performance Testing and Engineering (7+ years).
- Solid knowledge of Java, APIs, microservices, message queues, containerized apps, and cloud platforms.
- Experience with observability platforms: Splunk, Broadcom DX, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace (or similar).
- Proficiency with performance tools: StresStimulus, JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or k6.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) for log analysis and faster troubleshooting.
- Dice Id: 91170649
- Position Id: 26-06768
- Posted 6 days ago
Company Info
About Thunderhawk Technology Partners
Thunderhawk Technology Partners is a woman and minority-owned business, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, committed to reshaping the future of our workforce. Our story is one of passion and purpose, built on decades of experience in workforce management and a shared belief in empowering talent. We are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that drive client success while fostering an inclusive culture where our employees thrive.
With both global reach and local expertise, we offer a range of services across Technology, Engineering, Business Operations, and Healthcare. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is at the heart of what we do, reflected in programs like Warrior to Workforce, Returnship (EmpowerHer, Pathway to Success, Experience Matters) and Neuro-Inclusion.
At Thunderhawk, we treat people with care and respect, striving to build high-performing teams that reflect the values of our clients and the communities we serve. Let us be your trusted partner in shaping a more inclusive and successful future for your organization.

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