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The ideal candidate will contribute to defining the performance testing strategy, execute large-scale load tests, and deliver actionable insights through robust reporting and analytics. This role will be part of the Software Quality CoE, and it demands strong technical expertise, critical thinking, and the ability to make data-driven decisions.\nAdditionally, this role requires leveraging modern AI/LLM tools to enhance productivity in automation, performance scripting, test design, and result analysis.\nWhat You'll Do:\nPerformance Testing Strategy & Ownership\nDrive the overall performance testing strategy aligned with business and product goals.\nOwn the end-to-end performance testing lifecycle, including planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, and reporting.\nTest Design & Execution\nDesign and implement scalable load, stress, endurance, and spike test scenarios.\nDevelop and maintain performance test frameworks and reusable assets.\nExecute tests to validate system scalability, reliability, and stability under load.\nAnalysis & Reporting\nAnalyze performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers.\nDeliver detailed performance reports, dashboards, and analytics with actionable recommendations.\nCollaboration & Continuous Integration\nCollaborate with development, DevOps, and architecture teams to resolve performance issues.\nIntegrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation.\nDrive performance optimization initiatives and ensure SLAs/SLOs are met.\nWhat It Takes:\nTechnical\n5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering.\nStrong expertise in any of the performance testing tools (code as a test) such as Gatling, K6, Locust, or similar.\nSolid understanding of performance testing methodologies, workload modeling, and capacity planning.\nHands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar).\nStrong exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.).\nExperience analyzing system metrics (CPU, memory, I/O, network, database performance).\nProficiency in any scripting/programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.).\nExposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes).\nLeadership & Collaboration\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to present performance insights to stakeholders.\nAbility to take ownership and make data-driven decisions in high-pressure scenarios.\nA team player who can challenge constructively and drive quality excellence.\nMindset\nA strong quality mindset with attention to detail and deep curiosity to identify system limits.\nHands-on, proactive, and continuously learning.\nNice to Have\nExperience in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) or Digital Manufacturing domains.\nExperience in API performance testing and microservices architecture.\nKnowledge of shift-left performance testing and performance engineering practices.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3280,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Design & Creative","Web Design","UI/UX Design"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T12:18:33Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.362,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":94,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/protolabs-sr-sqe-performance-testing","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/protolabs-sr-sqe-performance-testing.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T02:40:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3612,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1388,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}