Onsite Performance Test Engineer - K6 & JMeter Expert

Calance; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 69,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EPO/PPO Medical Plans

401K Retirement vesting (VOYA)

Flex Spending Plan

Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans

Job summary

Calance is seeking a Performance Test Engineer (K6 / JMeter) for an onsite, contract role in Plano, TX. The candidate will build and maintain performance scripts, run diverse load tests, analyze metrics, and integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. 100% onsite with mandatory on-site interviews.

Requires 5+ years in QA automation with strong performance testing, deep K6/JMeter expertise, API and web app testing, and cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure/GCP). BS CS or related field preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a QA Automation Test Engineer with strong performance testing.
• Experience designing/executing load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.
• Deep knowledge of K6 and/or JMeter (1st priority) and JMeter (2nd).
• 2+ years of experience with K6.
• Experience testing APIs (All API Architecture) and web applications.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications (EKS etc).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (Any cloud would work).
• Strong analysis skills to interpret results and recommend fixes.
• Education: BS Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performance test scripts in JMeter (2nd) and k6 (1st priority).
• Run load, stress, soak, spike, and endurance tests.
• Test applications, APIs, and backend services.
• Analyze response times, throughput, error rates, CPU, memory, and other metrics.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with teams to troubleshoot.
• Define performance goals and success criteria.
• Create performance test reports.
• Support benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

QA Automation

Performance testing

K6

JMeter

APIs testing

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Education

BS Computer Science or related field

Tools

JMeter

K6

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

EKS

Job description

Calance is seeking a Performance Test Engineer (K6 / JMeter) for an onsite, contract role in Plano, TX. The candidate will build and maintain performance scripts, run diverse load tests, analyze metrics, and integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. 100% onsite with mandatory on-site interviews.

Requires 5+ years in QA automation with strong performance testing, deep K6/JMeter expertise, API and web app testing, and cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure/GCP). BS CS or related field preferred.