What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Test Lead position at Swanktek Inc?
Job Title: Performance Test Lead
Location: Plano, Tx / Atlanta, GA / or Denver, CO (Hybrid )
Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description/Years of experience:
Seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead / Performance Test Architect with 7 years of experience in performance engineering, load testing, resiliency validation, and cloud-based application testing. This role will be responsible for driving end-to-end performance testing strategies across distributed applications and infrastructure, ensuring system scalability, reliability, failover readiness, and operational resilience. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in cloud platforms, Kubernetes/AKS environments, networking, and infrastructure automation to validate application performance under real-world and peak load conditions.
Responsibilities:
Seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead / Performance Test Architect with 7 years of experience in performance engineering, load testing, resiliency validation, and cloud-based application testing. This role will be responsible for driving end-to-end performance testing strategies across distributed applications and infrastructure, ensuring system scalability, reliability, failover readiness, and operational resilience. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in cloud platforms, Kubernetes/AKS environments, networking, and infrastructure automation to validate application performance under real-world and peak load conditions.
Responsibilities:
- Performance Test Architect with 7 yrs of experience. Will require end2end testing, performance testing, failover. Overall understanding of the Infra and Application to conduct load testing, failure recovery, KPIs, etc.
- Kubernetes/AKS
- Cloud Platform Networking
- Linux
- Docker/containerization
- Terraform
- Security Cloud Compliance / Vulnerability remediation
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. Performance Testing and Engineering
2. Cloud Platform Networking
3. Kubernetes/AKS