Performance Test Engineer Lead

We are Hiring for below position

Role: Performance Test Engineer Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC

Client: Wells Fargo (We are working with Prime Vendor)

Only Local Candidate

In-Person Interview

Visa: Independent Candidate

Contract W2 Role No C2C or C2H

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, and workload models.
• Design and implement performance test strategies for migration validation.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Execute performance tests using LoadRunner and/or BlazeMeter.
• Design workload distribution models based on business usage patterns.
• Conduct performance validation for applications migrating to new data center environments.
• Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysis across application, middleware, infrastructure, and database layers.
• Work with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics and Splunk for root cause analysis.
• Validate scalability, reliability, and resilience in containerized/OpenShift environments.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering experiments to validate system stability under failure conditions.
• Provide performance tuning recommendations to development and infrastructure teams.
• Prepare detailed performance reports and executive summaries.
• Support rapid onboarding of applications where performance testing is being conducted for the first time.

Requirements:

Performance Engineering

• Strong experience in NFR gathering and performance strategy definition.
• Expertise in performance scripting using:

o LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis)

o Apache JMeter

• Experience executing tests using:

o LoadRunner

o BlazeMeter

• Strong knowledge of workload modeling and test scenario design.
• Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.
• Monitoring & Analysis
• Hands-on experience with:

o AppDynamics

o Splunk

• Strong capability in performance diagnostics and bottleneck identification.
• Experience analyzing CPU, memory, thread pools, connection pools, logs, and SQL performance.

Technology Stack Exposure

• Java-based applications
• .NET applications
• Containerized environments (OpenShift/Kubernetes preferred)
• Microservices architecture understanding
• Chaos Engineering
• Experience designing and executing controlled failure experiments using Gremlin
• or Chaos Mesh
• Ability to validate resilience, failover, and recovery scenarios.

Preferred, but not required:

• Experience in Data Center Migration performance validation.
• Experience testing applications undergoing infrastructure refresh or cloud
• Familiarity with CI/CD integrated performance testing.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform) is an advantage.
• Experience handling performance testing for applications where no historical
• baseline exists.