Performance Test Lead

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Review the performance of existing systems and conduct requirement analysis.
• Define test strategy, design tests, and lead execution to ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Design an optimal test environment to simulate real-time scenarios.
• Guide and coach product teams (PO, Business team) to consider non-functional requirements early in the software development lifecycle.
• Assess end-to-end system performance and define strategies for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Create performance engineering strategies, present to client stakeholders, and track review comments to closure.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for databases, applications, and tools.
• Collect performance measurements to ensure system reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Analyze results to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system performance.
• Evaluate areas for performance optimization and provide recommendations.
• Integrate performance workload scripts into DevOps CI/CD pipelines or configure new pipelines.
• Create performance test scenarios simulating real-world load patterns and develop realistic workload models.
• Monitor the performance of networks, databases, applications, or other systems.
• Communicate effectively with architects and developers to gather requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution, or three years of progressive experience in performance engineering in lieu of education.
• Located within commuting distance of Fortmill, SC or willing to relocate.
• 4 years of experience in performance engineering, including 3+ years leading end-to-end performance engineering delivery.
• Experience in transforming current performance engineering landscape to meet current needs.
• Experience guiding and coaching product teams on non-functional requirements.
• Ability to assess system performance and define strategies for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience creating performance engineering strategies and presenting to stakeholders.
• Proficiency in designing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs.
• Experience with DevOps CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance scripts.
• Expertise in at least one APM tool (Splunk, Dynatrace, Profiler) and root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of monitoring networks, databases, applications, or other systems.
• Good communication skills for effective collaboration with technical teams.
• Exposure to Azure and GCP cloud platforms.
• Experience or familiarity with Kubernetes, Kafka, or API Orchestrators is desired.
• Experience in driving CoE initiatives, creating process frameworks, and capability building.

Nice to Have

• Experience in understanding the product, analyzing user stories, performing data analysis, and developing test scenarios.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• Good understanding of the Software Test lifecycle activities through multiple projects.
• Knowledge of Playwright is a plus.
• Analytical skills and strong communication skills.
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment.
• Ability to work in a team with diverse and multiple stakeholders.

Benefits & Perks

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance.
• Long-term/Short-term Disability.
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts.
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal).
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level.
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off.