Performance Load Test Architect/Lead

Apollo Technology Solutions LLC; Middletown Township (PA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Technology Solutions LLC is seeking a Performance Load Test Architect/Lead for an 8+ month engagement in Middletown, PA. This remote position requires occasional travel and weekly onsite meetings in Middletown.

Lead the performance engineering strategy for complex enterprise systems including SAP BRIM, S/4HANA, and CRM platforms, defining workloads, SLOs/SLAs, and acceptance criteria. You will provide technical leadership, review architectures for scalability, and drive automation with

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years in IT with emphasis on performance engineering.
• 8+ years designing and leading enterprise performance programs.
• Strong background in SAP BRIM, S/4HANA, and middleware integrations.
• Expert-level NeoLoad skills and cloud familiarity (Azure/AWS).

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise performance engineering strategy for Journi program.
• Develop performance standards, governance, and best practices.
• Define workload models and establish NFRs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Lead performance planning for all project lifecycle stages.
• Review architecture for scalability risks and bottlenecks early in SDLC.
• Provide leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing.
• Lead performance testing across SAP, CRM, middleware, APIs, and web/mobile apps.
• Define load profiles, review test plans, and approve test assets.

Skills

12+ years IT experience

8+ years performance engineering

5+ years leading performance testing

NeoLoad expert

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

NeoLoad certification

Azure or AWS cloud certs

Tools

NeoLoad

SAP BRIM

SAP S/4HANA

APIs & middleware

Job description

Job Title: Performance Load Test Architect/Lead

Duration: 8+ months

Location: Middletown, PA (Remote Position w/ occasional travel)

Note: The resource shall attend onsite meetings at one of the Commission Middletown PA locations for 1 week per month based on the schedule set by the client

Job Description of Duties

• Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program.
• Develop enterprise performance testing standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices.
• Define workload models using historical production metrics and anticipated business growth.
• Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), service level agreements (SLAs), and performance acceptance criteria.
• Lead performance planning activities for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
• Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints early in the SDLC.
• Provide technical leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations.

Performance Engineering Leadership

Lead performance testing across:

• SAP BRIM
• SAP Convergent Mediation (CM)
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP Datasphere
• Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement
• Middleware
• REST/SOAP APIs
• Batch processing
• Event-driven integrations
• Customer web portal
• Mobile applications
• IVR and chatbot platforms
• Define enterprise load profiles for concurrent users, transaction volumes, billing cycles, payment processing, toll transactions, financial processing, and customer service operations.
• Review and approve performance test plans, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules developed by performance analysts

Architecture, Monitoring & Analysis

• Define enterprise monitoring strategy across application, middleware, SAP, database, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
• Analyze application response times, throughput, resource utilization, JVM metrics, database performance, middleware queues, API latency, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Lead root-cause analysis with development, SAP, CRM, infrastructure, middleware, and vendor teams.
• Recommend application tuning, database optimization, infrastructure scaling, and configuration improvements.
• Validate system readiness for production deployment.

Tooling & Automation

• Lead implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform.
• Define reusable scripting frameworks and standards.
• Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases.
• Develop performance dashboards and executive reporting.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance boards.
• Fully document all created work associated with this position, including technical and functional designs and diagrams, test plans, test scripts, impact analysis reports, lessons learned, best practices for others to follow, plus any other documentation as required by the Commission. This documentation shall follow the format and / or templates as instructed by the Commission.
• Adhere to and follow all The Commission standards, policies, and procedures.

Minimum Experience/Skillset

• 12+ years of overall IT experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise performance testing initiatives.
• Expert-level experience with NeoLoad.
• Experience architecting performance testing solutions for enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong experience with SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP Datasphere, CRM platforms, APIs, middleware, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience designing production workload models using historical production metrics.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Capacity planning
  • Performance engineering
  • Scalability architecture
  • Stress, endurance, spike, and failover testing
  • API and middleware performance testing
  • Batch processing optimization
  • Cloud and hybrid infrastructure performance
  • Performance monitoring and diagnostics

Certifications / Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• NeoLoad certification preferred.
• Cloud certifications (Azure or AWS) are preferred.