Title : QA Engineer with Performance & Load Testing
Location : New York, NY- Onsite
Duration : 6 months
Position : W2 Position
Rate :$45/hr
Relevant Experience (in Yrs.): 7+
Detailed Job Description:
· 7+ years of QA Engineering experience with 4+ years focused on Performance Engineering and Load Testing.
· Strong hands-on experience with k6, Locust, Gatling, J Meter, or equivalent performance testing tools.
· Experience designing and executing load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests.
· Expertise testing HTTP/REST APIs, Web Sockets, event-driven systems, Kafka, Pub/Sub, and messaging platforms.
· Strong understanding of latency analysis, throughput measurement, concurrency testing, error rate analysis, and capacity
· Design, develop, and execute comprehensive performance, load, stress, spike, and endurance testing strategies.
· Create realistic workload models and traffic patterns that reflect production usage.
· Execute performance testing across APIs, event streams, and real-time communication systems.
· Analyze latency percentiles (P95/P99), throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and overall system behavior.
· Identify and troubleshoot application, database, messaging, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
· Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to validate remediation efforts.
· Define performance benchmarks and validate system scalability against SLAs.
· Develop automated performance testing solutions integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
· Produce detailed performance reports and recommendations to improve system reliability and scalability.
· Support release readiness assessments from a performance and scalability perspective."
Must Have Skills
· Performance Engineering & Load Testing
· k6
· Workload Modeling & Distributed Load Testing
· API/Micro services
· Observability & Monitoring
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