Lead Performance Test Engineer

Synechron, Inc._USA Company; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A highly competitive compensation and…

Multinational organization with global

10 days paid annual leave

Maternity & paternity leave plans

Comprehensive insurance plan

Retirement savings plans

Extensive training opportunities

Udemy for Business access

Job summary

Synechron, Inc. in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to own end-to-end performance testing of enterprise applications. You will define strategies, develop load tests, and analyze bottlenecks across applications, databases, and infrastructure.

You will mentor junior testers, collaborate with dev, architecture, and DevOps, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines while promoting performance engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• QA/Performance Testing experience with experience in a lead role.
• Strong experience with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, or Gatling.
• Experience testing Web Applications, APIs, Microservices, and Cloud-based solutions.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, REST APIs, SQL, Java/.NET architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience monitoring applications using Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic.
• Strong skills in performance analysis, capacity planning, and root cause identification.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Preferred, but not required: Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.
• Knowledge of container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in performance engineering, site reliability, and application tuning.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Relevant certifications in performance testing, cloud, or quality engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end performance testing activities for enterprise applications.
• Define performance test strategy, workload models, and test plans.
• Design, develop, and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.
• Analyze performance metrics and identify application, database, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, and business teams to resolve performance issues.
• Prepare performance reports and provide optimization recommendations.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support performance engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior performance testers and coordinate testing activities across teams.

Skills

QA/Performance Testing leadership

Performance analysis

Capacity planning

Root cause identification

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

NeoLoad

Gatling

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

New Relic

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Synechron, Inc. in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to own end-to-end performance testing of enterprise applications. You will define strategies, develop load tests, and analyze bottlenecks across applications, databases, and infrastructure.

You will mentor junior testers, collaborate with dev, architecture, and DevOps, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines while promoting performance engineering best practices.