Performance Automation Engineer: JMeter & Selenium (Hybrid)

Merck; Harrisonburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Hybrid work arrangement

Paid growth time

Job summary

Merck in Harrisonburg, VA is recruiting an Automation Engineer who champions high-performance test automation with JMeter and Selenium Grid. The role combines bug triage, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning to reduce latency on the user path.

The position offers a $94,000-$135,000 annual salary with a hybrid work model, mentorship, health coverage, and paid growth time. We’re reviewing candidates now for immediate fit in Harrisonburg.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused mindset with strong interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with Cross-Functional Collaboration and related tools or frameworks.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership.
• Ability to translate Cross-Functional Collaboration complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable.
• Fluency with Cross-Functional Collaboration and Gatling, with informed opinions.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Read the Selenium Grid stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Merck users feel every click.
• Guard codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch.
• Keep the Empathy service humming through Harrisonburg's holiday traffic surge.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Mentor newer senior hires on how Merck wires Empathy together.

Skills

Customer-focused

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Senior leadership presentation

Attention to detail

Gatling

Selenium Grid debugging

Tools

Selenium Grid

JMeter

Job description

Merck in Harrisonburg, VA is recruiting an Automation Engineer who champions high-performance test automation with JMeter and Selenium Grid. The role combines bug triage, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning to reduce latency on the user path.

The position offers a $94,000-$135,000 annual salary with a hybrid work model, mentorship, health coverage, and paid growth time. We’re reviewing candidates now for immediate fit in Harrisonburg.