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Performance Engineer - W2 Only

Saransh Inc
Vienna, VA Contractor
POSTED ON 8/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/1/2027
Job Title: Performance Engineer

Location: Vienna, VA

W2 Position

Name

Performance Testing

AppDynamics Analytics

Kubernetes

NeoLoad

Jmeter

Job Description

Seeking a Performance Engineer with strong expertise in performance testing, monitoring, and application scalability for cloud-native and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing and executing load, stress, and endurance tests using NeoLoad, JMeter, and LoadRunner, while leveraging Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and Splunk to identify performance bottlenecks and conduct root cause analysis. This role requires experience with cloud deployments, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes environments, high availability, resilience testing, and observability practices. The successful candidate will collaborate with technical teams to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability while driving performance engineering best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

Professional experience as Performance Engineer with good hands-on experience in implementing performance & high availability strategies to optimize the efficiency of applications.

Strong hands-on skills with test script development using Neoload, JMeter & LoadRunner. Experience in executing performance tests (load/stress/endurance) using Neoload/JMeter/LoadRunner and performance monitoring using APM tools to identify performance issues

Hands-on experience in APM tools like Dynatrace & AppDynamics to conduct root cause analysis for performance and scalability bottlenecks

Able to analyze Splunk logs, Dynatrace distributed traces, Appdynamics Snapshots, method hotspots and response-time hotspots to identify slow components and provide recommendations

Experience in performance testing for Cloud deployments, Docker/Kubernetes containerized applications and microservices

Strong knowledge on Java/Python, SQL query creation and manipulation skills

Experience in Auto-Scaling, Chaos and failover testing to measure and test for Pod/Node failures, Network exhaustion, CPU/memory saturation, Container startup failures and Dependency failures etc.

Strong ability to track and contribute to technical discussions around application integration and high-availability, resilience and observability

Individual Contributor with good communication skills

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

  • Neoload, JMeter
  • Performance Testing
  • Performance Monitoring using AppDynamics, Dynatrace

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