Overview
Title: Lead Performance Engineer with Orchestration.
Location: Charlotte, NC
Inperson interview needed.
Position type: W2 contract
Job Description
We are seeking experienced Performance Test Engineers to support a large-scale Data Center Migration program involving performance validation of enterprise applications. The role requires strong expertise in end-to-end performance testing, including NFR gathering, scripting, execution, monitoring, and advanced bottleneck analysis across modern cloud-native and enterprise platforms. This position requires candidates who can ramp up quickly, work independently, and bring strong engineering depth to both first-time performance initiatives and performance re-validation scenarios.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, and workload models.
- Design and implement performance test strategies for migration validation.
- Develop and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner and JMeter.
- Execute performance tests using LoadRunner and/or BlazeMeter.
- Design workload distribution models based on business usage patterns.
- Conduct performance validation for applications migrating to new data center environments.
- Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysis across application, middleware, infrastructure, and database layers.
- Work with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics and Splunk for root cause analysis.
- Validate scalability, reliability, and resilience in containerized/OpenShift environments.
- Plan and execute Chaos Engineering experiments to validate system stability under failure conditions.
- Provide performance tuning recommendations to development and infrastructure teams.
- Prepare detailed performance reports and executive summaries.
- Support rapid onboarding of applications where performance testing is being conducted for the first time.
Required Technical Skills
- Performance Engineering
- Strong experience in NFR gathering and performance strategy definition.
- Expertise in performance scripting using:
- LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis)
- Apache JMeter
- LoadRunner
- BlazeMeter
- Strong knowledge of Orchestration of workload modeling and test scenario design.
- Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.
Monitoring & Analysis
- Hands-on experience with:
- AppDynamics
- Splunk
- Strong capability in performance diagnostics and bottleneck identification.
- Experience analyzing CPU, memory, thread pools, connection pools, GC logs, and SQL performance.
Technology Stack Exposure
- Java-based applications
- .NET applications
- Containerized environments (OpenShift/Kubernetes preferred)
- Microservices architecture understanding
Chaos Engineering
- Experience designing and executing controlled failure experiments using Gremlin or Chaos Mesh
- Ability to validate resilience, failover, and recovery scenarios.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in Data Center Migration performance validation.
- Experience testing applications undergoing infrastructure refresh or cloud transformation.
- Familiarity with CI/CD integrated performance testing.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) is an advantage.
- Experience handling performance testing for applications where no historical baseline exists.