Performance Testing Lead- Contract Position

About the Role

The role involves leading performance testing initiatives, managing teams, and ensuring the successful execution of performance test cycles for large-scale enterprise systems for one of our prestigious client.

***The Candidate shall meet the qualifications below:

• At least seven (7) years of experience performing performance testing or performance engineering for large scale enterprise systems as defined above.
• At least four (4) years of experience in a lead role, managing performance testing teams, including planning, execution, and reporting of performance test cycles.
• At least four (4) years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end performance test strategies, including workload modeling, scripting, execution, and reporting.
• At least four (4) years of experience executing load, stress, endurance, and spike testing, including validation against defined performance SLAs (response time, throughput, error rate).
• At least four (4) years of experience translating non-functional requirements into measurable performance test scenarios, including volumetric models and workload distribution.
• At least four (4) years of hands-on experience using performance testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter or equivalent and performance monitoring tools like Elastic, Dynatrace, or equivalent.
• At least four (4) years of experience testing APIs (REST/SOAP), validating latency, throughput, and error handling.
• At least four (4) years of experience using test management and defect tracking tools like Micro Focus ALM, Azure DevOps, Jira.
• At least four (4) years of experience using SQL or similar technologies for test data preparation and validation.
• At least four (4) years of experience conducting bottleneck analysis and providing documented tuning recommendations based on performance results.

• A Bachelor's degree in a Business Administration, Information Technology (IT) or Engineering Field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.
• Possesses a Master's degree in a Business Administration, IT or Engineering field.
• At least ten (10) years of cumulative experience performing performance testing or performance engineering for large scale enterprise systems as defined above.
• At least seven (7) years of cumulative experience leading enterprise-scale performance programs, including demonstrated improvements in SLA compliance or throughput optimization.
• At least five (5) years of experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, Jenkins with automated pass/fail gates.
• At least three (3) years of experience performance testing cloud-based or SaaS systems, including autoscaling and distributed load strategies.
• One (1) year of experience supporting large scale enterprise benefit systems (e.g., Unemployment Insurance or Disability Insurance) meeting defined large-scale enterprise system criteria.

Required Skills/certs:

• Possesses one or more of the below certifications:

--> ISTQB Certified Tester Performance Testing (CT-PT),

--> Open Text Load Runner Professional Developer Certification Exam,

--> AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate,

--> AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Performance Specialty.

Preferred Education:

• Possesses a Master's degree in a Business Administration, IT or Engineering field.

This is C2C Contract Role

Hybrid Model

Please review the qualifications carefully. If you meet the above requirements, kindly send your resume to recruiter@sled-its.com