{"id":1464494,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sutherland-tech-lead-qa-performance-testing","title":"Tech Lead - QA - Performance Testing","company":{"id":6648,"name":"Sutherland","domain":"sutherlandglobal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sutherland","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":40,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":18000,"max_usd":45000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":8},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache HTTP Server","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"JMeter","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Cognos","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"k6","optional":true},{"name":"Power BI","optional":true},{"name":"Tableau","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T07:37:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T19:31:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About Sutherland\nArtificial Intelligence. Automation. Cloud engineering. Advanced analytics. For business leaders, these are key factors of success. For us, they’re our core expertise.\nWe work with iconic brands worldwide. We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technology and business process excellence.\nWe’ve created over 200 unique inventions under several patents across AI and other critical technologies. Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless “as a service” model.\nFor each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve. We tailor proven and rapid formulas, to fit their unique DNA. We bring together human expertise and artificial intelligence to develop digital chemistry. This unlocks new possibilities, transformative outcomes and enduring relationships.\nSutherland\nUnlocking digital performance. Delivering measurable results.\n Role summary\nWe are looking for a Performance Engineer to design and execute performance testing across web applications, BI workloads, and ETL/data models in a SAFe environment. The role requires strong hands-on experience with Apache JMeter, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Playwright for custom web, BI, and ETL performance scripting. Azure DevOps pipeline experience is required. Ability to learn quickly is essential. Hands-on use of GitHub Copilot is needed; familiarity with MCP is a plus.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, execute, and analyze performance tests for web apps, BI reports/dashboards, and ETL/data models - JMeter (load, stress, soak, spike) for web, and custom Playwright/Python scripts for BI and ETL - and convert SLAs into measurable thresholds.\nValidate ETL pipeline and data-model performance - job runtime, data volume handling, transformation throughput, and downstream reporting impact.\nAssess BI performance - report/dashboard load times, query response, concurrent user load, and refresh/batch windows.\nIntegrate performance tests into Azure DevOps pipelines with automated quality gates, reporting, and release readiness checks.\nIdentify bottlenecks, publish clear findings, and work with development, QA, data, and operations teams.\nParticipate in SAFe ceremonies (PI Planning, Sprint Planning, System Demo, Inspect & Adapt) and deliver against iteration/PI goals.\nUse GitHub Copilot (and MCP where available) to accelerate scripting, analysis, and documentation.\n Required skills\n4-8 years in performance engineering or test automation with a strong performance focus.\nStrong JMeter experience: test plans, correlation, parameterization, assertions, distributed execution, and result analysis.\nPlaywright + JavaScript/TypeScript and Python for custom client-side, BI, and ETL performance scripting.\nExperience performance-testing web applications, BI tools, and ETL/data models.\nAzure DevOps experience: pipelines, CI/CD, test execution, and reporting.\nWorking knowledge of SAFe and ability to operate in Agile Release Trains.\nSolid understanding of HTTP/APIs, data flows, and core performance metrics (latency, throughput, error rate, concurrency, job duration).\nPractical experience with GitHub Copilot; familiarity with MCP is a plus.\nStrong communication, root-cause analysis, and fast learning ability.\nNice to have\nDeeper ETL / data pipeline background.\nBI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, or similar.\nk6, Grafana, Datadog, Application Insights, or other observability tools.\nCloud experience (Azure preferred).\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3809,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)","Call Center Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T14:15:48Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:10","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand,attention"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sutherland-tech-lead-qa-performance-testing","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sutherland-tech-lead-qa-performance-testing.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T02:59:52Z","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":4064,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":936,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}