Lead Performance Test Architect (Cloud & Resiliency)

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to drive performance engineering for enterprise and cloud-native apps. This hands-on role demands deep expertise in testing, automation, observability, and resiliency, collaborating with development, platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams.

You will design and execute performance strategies, build automated frameworks with NeoLoad, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and use AWS and monitoring tools to optimize scalability and

Qualifications

• At least 10 years hands-on performance testing/engineering for enterprise apps.
• Proficient with NeoLoad or similar enterprise performance testing tools.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on AWS cloud services experience (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Programming/scripting in Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting.
• Experience diagnosing performance across app, DB, infra, network, and cloud with observability tools.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, ECS, EKS).

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity-testing strategies for enterprise applications, APIs, and cloud-based services.
• Build and maintain automated performance-testing frameworks using NeoLoad and custom performance engineering solutions.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or comparable automation platforms, including performance thresholds and quality gates.
• Analyze applications, database, infrastructure, network, and cloud performance to identify bottlenecks and provide actionable optimization recommendations.
• Use AWS services and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus to troubleshoot complex performance issues.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering and resiliency-testing exercises to evaluate fault tolerance, recovery capabilities, and operational readiness.
• Develop automation utilities using Python, Java, SQL, APIs, and scripting languages to improve testing efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define performance KPIs, engineering standards, capacity requirements, and performance-improvement plans.

Skills

Performance testing

NeoLoad

CI/CD

AWS

Python

Java

SQL

Shell scripting

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

GitLab CI/CD

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic Stack

Chaos Engineering

SRE

Tools

NeoLoad

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

ECS

EKS

EC2

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic Stack

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to drive performance engineering for enterprise and cloud-native apps. This hands-on role demands deep expertise in testing, automation, observability, and resiliency, collaborating with development, platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams.

You will design and execute performance strategies, build automated frameworks with NeoLoad, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and use AWS and monitoring tools to optimize scalability and