Performance Test Engineer

Overview

Remote
$50 - $60
Contract - W2
Contract - 06 Month(s)

Skills

K6
Gatling
Datadog
AWS
Performance testing
APIs

Job Details

Immediate need for a talented Performance Test Engineer. This is a 06 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in U.S(Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:25-89373

Pay Range: $50 - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Report to a QA Manager.
  • Collaborate with the Engineering, Quality Engineering, Support, Product Management, and DevOps teams to review and document requirements, execute performance tests, and troubleshoot/resolve (blocking) issues.
  • Design and execute different performance test strategies depending on unique project purposes and requirements.
  • Analyze test results and establish reliable mathematical models for response time, throughput, SLA, and other application performance metrics.
  • Grow and evolve our performance tooling and testing processes to ensure tests are customer-like and representative of real-world scenarios.
  • Identify existing bottlenecks in the hardware and software platform, application code stack, and network.
  • Measure and document reliable predictions on potential bottlenecks as computing platforms and workloads change.
  • Communicate test results and analysis to Engineering, Operations, PM, Network, and DB teams.
  • Develop unique performance testing tools, analysis methodologies, as well as capacity planning.
  • Support the Engineering teams with tools and frameworks to enhance system performance, scalability, and stability.
  • Help and guide other QE teams to develop their own performance test plans and scripts.
  • Co-ordinate multiple performance test projects within the limited test resources; provide expert opinions in understanding and analyzing their test results.
  • Identify gaps, issues, or other areas of concern, and proactively define, propose, and enact process and workflow improvements to mitigate such issues.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

  • Key Skills:K6, Gatling, Datadog, AWS, Performance testing, APIs .
  • At minimum bachelor s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of experience in performance engineering.
  • 3 years of experience with code-first performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Gatling) and performance analysis via DataDog or similar platforms.
  • Advanced coding skills in JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Extensive experience working with microservices architecture, preferably with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
  • 3 years of hands-on experience in testing APIs and web applications is a must.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
  • Proven ability to perform profile/baseline, load and stress testing, soak, spike testing, etc.
  • Proven ability to drill down into results and complete deep dive root cause analysis.
  • Strong technical communication and documentation skills.

Our client is a leading Food and Restaurant Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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