Performance Load Test Architect/Lead
Remote (Occasional Travel)
Description:
Diversified Systems is searching for a Performance Load Test Architect/Lead to define and lead the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program. The selected consultant will be responsible for enterprise performance testing, capacity planning, performance governance, workload modeling, monitoring strategy, and production readiness across SAP, CRM, middleware, API, web, mobile, and enterprise integration platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program.
- Develop enterprise performance testing standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices.
- Define workload models using historical production metrics and anticipated business growth.
- Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), service level agreements (SLAs), and performance acceptance criteria.
- Lead performance planning activities for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints early in the SDLC.
- Provide technical leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations.
- Lead performance testing across SAP BRIM, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement, middleware, REST/SOAP APIs, batch processing, event-driven integrations, customer web portals, mobile applications, and IVR/chatbot platforms.
- Define enterprise load profiles for concurrent users, transaction volumes, billing cycles, payment processing, toll transactions, financial processing, and customer service operations.
- Review and approve performance test plans, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules developed by performance analysts.
- Define enterprise monitoring strategy across application, middleware, SAP, database, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
- Analyze application response times, throughput, resource utilization, JVM metrics, database performance, middleware queues, API latency, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Lead root-cause analysis with development, SAP, CRM, infrastructure, middleware, and vendor teams.
- Recommend application tuning, database optimization, infrastructure scaling, and configuration improvements.
- Validate system readiness for production deployment.
- Lead implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform.
- Define reusable scripting frameworks and standards.
- Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases.
- Develop performance dashboards and executive reporting.
- Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance boards.
- Fully document all created work including technical and functional designs, diagrams, test plans, test scripts, impact analysis reports, lessons learned, and best practices in accordance with Commission standards and templates.
- Adhere to all Commission standards, policies, and procedures.
Requirements:
- 12 years of overall IT experience required.
- 8 years of enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience required.
- 5 years leading enterprise performance testing initiatives required.
- Expert-level experience with NeoLoad required.
- Experience architecting performance testing solutions for enterprise-scale applications required.
- Strong experience with SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP Datasphere, CRM platforms, APIs, middleware, and enterprise integrations required.
- Experience designing production workload models using historical production metrics required.
- Strong knowledge of capacity planning required.
- Strong knowledge of performance engineering required.
- Strong knowledge of scalability architecture required.
- Strong knowledge of stress, endurance, spike, and failover testing required.
- Strong knowledge of API and middleware performance testing required.
- Strong knowledge of batch processing optimization required.
- Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid infrastructure performance required.
- Strong knowledge of performance monitoring and diagnostics required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field required.
- Candidate must reside within the Continental United States required.
- Must pass ePATCH and ClearChecks background checks prior to starting required.
- Must be available for onsite activities in Middletown, Pennsylvania, as required for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, Architecture Workshops, Performance Test Planning, SIT, UAT, Showbacks, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Must attend onsite meetings at Commission locations in Middletown, PA one week per month based on Commission scheduling requirements.
- Must attend onsite orientation and equipment pickup at a Commission facility.
- Must adhere to Commission technology usage policies, security requirements, and remote work standards.
Desired Skills:
- NeoLoad Certification highly desired.
- Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS highly desired.
- Preference will be given to candidates local to Pennsylvania or within reasonable commuting distance to Middletown, PA.
About Diversified Systems
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.
Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.
