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This is a hands-on technical role requiring deep expertise in performance testing, automation, cloud platforms, observability, and application resiliency.\nYou will collaborate with development, architecture, platform engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to establish performance standards, implement automated quality gates, identify system bottlenecks, and improve application scalability and operational readiness.\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity-testing strategies for enterprise applications, APIs, and cloud-based services.\nBuild and maintain automated performance-testing frameworks using NeoLoad and custom performance engineering solutions.\nIntegrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or comparable automation platforms, including performance thresholds and quality gates.\nAnalyze applications, database, infrastructure, network, and cloud performance to identify bottlenecks and provide actionable optimization recommendations.\nUse AWS services and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus to troubleshoot complex performance issues.\nPlan and execute Chaos Engineering and resiliency-testing exercises to evaluate fault tolerance, recovery capabilities, and operational readiness.\nDevelop automation utilities using Python, Java, SQL, APIs, and scripting languages to improve testing efficiency and reduce manual effort.\nPartner with technical and business stakeholders to define performance KPIs, engineering standards, capacity requirements, and performance-improvement plans.\nWork model\nWe strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States for the duration of the assignment. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.\nThe working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you are engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWhat you need to have to be considered\nAt least 10 years of hands-on experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or non-functional testing for enterprise applications.\nHands-on expertise with NeoLoad or a comparable enterprise performance testing tool, including test design, workload modeling, execution, analysis, and reporting.\nExperience integrating automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or similar automation platforms.\nHands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures, including services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.\nProgramming and scripting experience using Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting, including experience testing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.\nExperience diagnosing performance issues across application, database, infrastructure, network, and cloud layers using observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or Elastic Stack.\nExperience working with containerized environments and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, ECS, or EKS.\nStrong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the flexibility to support planned production testing during off-hours or weekends when required.\nThese will help you stand out\nExperience designing and implementing Chaos Engineering, resiliency-testing, or disaster-recovery validation programs.\nKnowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, operational excellence practices, service-level objectives, and performance-based quality gates.\nExperience with capacity planning, scalability analysis, production-readiness assessments, and cloud-cost optimization.\nExperience developing reusable performance engineering frameworks, accelerators, or custom automation utilities.\nExposure to AI-driven performance analysis, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, predictive capacity planning, or intelligent test automation.\nWe’re excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. 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