Performance & Resilience Test Engineer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

DecisionPoint is seeking a Performance & Resilience Test Engineer to evaluate scalability, stability, and recovery of mission-critical software supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role develops diverse test types, creates realistic workload models, and provides evidence-based recommendations for release readiness and capacity planning.

The position emphasizes collaboration with architects, developers, CI/CD, and government stakeholders, focusing on automated testing and dependable

Qualificações

• Experience in designing and executing performance, load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests.
• Ability to analyze workloads, identify bottlenecks, and propose optimization strategies.
• Strong collaboration across software, CI/CD, and operations teams.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain performance, load, stress, spike, endurance, volume, scalability, failover, and recovery tests.
• Build automated regression, API, and integration tests to support repeatable performance validation.
• Analyze workflows, usage patterns, and transaction volumes to model realistic workloads.
• Define objectives, baselines, thresholds, and measurable results for performance tests.
• Prepare test data, scripts, and configurations; execute tests across environments and pipelines.
• Produce reproducible results, logs, reports, and metrics with evidence of behavior under varied conditions.
• Identify bottlenecks across applications, databases, networks, and infrastructure; coordinate root-cause analysis.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Performance & Resilience Test Engineer to evaluate the scalability, stability, responsiveness, failover behavior, and recovery capabilities of mission-critical software supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role develops regression, API, integration, load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests; creates realistic workload models; and produces reproducible evidence of system behavior under normal, peak, degraded, and recovery conditions. The Performance & Resilience Test Engineer works with architects, software developers, API and integration engineers, infrastructure and cloud teams, database specialists, cybersecurity personnel, CI/CD engineers, operations teams, and Government stakeholders. The position identifies performance bottlenecks, validates failover and recovery procedures, and provides evidence-based recommendations supporting release readiness, capacity planning, and operational resilience.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain performance, load, stress, spike, endurance, volume, scalability, failover, and recovery tests.
• Build automated regression, API, and integration tests supporting repeatable performance and resilience validation.
• Analyze mission workflows, usage patterns, transaction volumes, concurrency, data characteristics, interfaces, and operational objectives.
• Develop workload models that represent normal operations, peak demand, surge conditions, degraded environments, and recovery scenarios.
• Define test objectives, performance baselines, service thresholds, acceptance criteria, and measurable expected results.
• Develop test plans, scenarios, scripts, data, configurations, and execution schedules.
• Prepare representative test data for functional, high-volume, boundary, exception, failover, and recovery scenarios.
• Maintain repeatable processes for test-data creation, setup, refresh, reset, reconciliation, and cleanup.
• Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, performance, or other Government-approved environments.
• Automate test execution through approved CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.
• Produce reproducible test results, logs, reports, metrics, graphs, and objective evidence.
• Measure and analyze response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, error rates, resource utilization, saturation, queue depth, and transaction completion.
• Establish performance baselines and compare results across builds, releases, configurations, environments, and infrastructure changes.
• Identify application, database, interface, network, cloud, infrastructure, configuration, or external-service bottlenecks.
• Correlate test results with application logs, infrastructure metrics, traces, events, and monitoring data.
• Work with technical teams to isolate root causes and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Validate failover behavior for applications, services, interfaces, databases, infrastructure components, and dependent capabilities.
• Test approved recovery procedures and confirm that services return to an acceptable operational state.
• Validate recovery sequencing, data consistency, transaction handling, dependency restoration, and post-recovery functionality.
• Evaluate behavior during component failures, network interruptions, service degradation, capacity constraints, and dependency outages.
• Verify that systems fail safely and provide appropriate errors, alerts, retries, timeouts, and recovery behavior.
• Support disaster-recovery, continuity, restoration, and operational-readiness exercises where applicable.
• Document performance defects, resilience gaps, capacity risks, recovery failures, and release impacts.
• Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, correction verification, and targeted regression testing.
• Coordinate with architects and engineering teams to evaluate scalability, capacity, extensibility, and recovery approaches.
• Coordinate with CI/CD engineers to integrate repeatable performance checks, thresholds, reports, and quality gates.
• Coordinate with operations teams to incorporate production observations and operational feedback into future testing.
• Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, release testing, and operational validation.
• Provide performance and resilience results, residual risks, and release-readiness recommendations to technical and program stakeholders.
• Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, data, and documentation in approved version-control repositories.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of performance engineering, workload modeling, observability, failover testing,