Performance Tester

General Dynamics Corporation; Silver Spring, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Wellness packages

Job summary

General Dynamics Corporation seeks a Salesforce Performance Tester to evaluate scalability and response times across Salesforce environments, integrations, and APIs. You will design and execute tests, analyze results, and work with cross-functional teams to optimize performance.

The role requires 8+ years in performance testing and 4+ years with Salesforce, plus eligibility for CMS clearance. Remote-friendly with full-time employment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on performance testing experience, 4+ years in Salesforce performance testing.
• Extensive experience with large Salesforce projects and terminology.
• QA Test management on Salesforce including UI, back end, and integrations.
• Experience developing automation test scripts from scratch and test automation activities.
• Experience with tools like LoadRunner, Selenium, RESTful services, and Jenkins/GitHub integrations.
• Ability to document test results and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Knowledge of API performance testing (REST, SOAP, GraphQL).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey technical topics to stakeholders.
• Eligible to obtain CMS Public Trust clearance (T4) and US residency in last five years.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate Salesforce applications for scalability, reliability, and responsiveness across environments.
• Plan, design, execute, and analyze performance tests for Salesforce Orgs, Integrations, APIs, and components.
• Develop and execute performance test strategies for Service Cloud and Experience Cloud.
• Create and run performance scripts using JMeter, LoadRunner, and related tools.
• Capture and report performance metrics including Apex, SOQL, REST/SOAP, and LWC components.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to optimize performance and monitoring.
• Validate scalability for high traffic portals, API traffic, and enterprise releases.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and conduct peer reviews of test cases and documents.

Skills

Performance testing

Salesforce performance testing

Salesforce

QA Test management

Test automation

Web automation

API automation

Jenkins

GitHub

RESTful APIs

Cucumber

Communication skills

JMeter

New Relic

AppDynamics

Splunk

JIRA

Tools

LoadRunner

Selenium WebDriver

JMeter

REST/GraphQL testing tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote

Full Part/Time: Full time

Job Req: RQ227987

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family: Professional Engineering

We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that's important.

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Salesforce Performance Tester joining our Federal Services System Support and Oversight (FSSSO) program to remotely support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) activities.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Salesforce Performance Tester supporting CMS, you will be responsible for evaluating and ensuring the scalability, reliability and responsiveness of Salesforce applications across multiple Salesforce environments. You will plan, design, execute and analyze performance tests across Salesforce Orgs, Integrations, API's and custom components to validate system behavior under peak and sustained loads.

How a Salesforce Performance Tester will Make an Impact:

• Developing performance test strategies specific to Salesforce applications on Service cloud and Experience cloud.
• Building and executing performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• Simulating user loads for Salesforce User Interface, Experience cloud portals, API integrations, and batch/async processes.
• Validating response times, throughput, latency, governor limits, platform events and async queue responses and document performance defects with detailed reproduction steps and logs.
• Capturing, analyzing, and reporting performance metrics related to Apex, SOQL queries, flows, REST/SOAP APIs, LWC Components etc.
• Evaluating integration performances across external API's, AWS/Snowflake data fetches and authentication flows.
• Working with developers, architects and cross functional teams to optimize performance across code, configurations, integrations and caching etc. and to set up more advanced monitoring as need to analyze system performance.
• Validating scalability for high traffic public portals, high volume API's, seasonal surges and enterprise releases.
• Participating in Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, grooming, estimation) to support innovation and enhancement of applications through iteration/functionality testing.
• Conducting peer reviews of test cases and test documents.

Required Skills:

• Master's degree and 8+ years of hands‑on performance testing experience, with at least 4 years of Salesforce performance testing experience.
• Hands on experience working and understanding large, complex Salesforce projects, with proficiency in navigating Salesforce and comprehensive understanding of Salesforce terminology.
• Expertise in QA Test management on Salesforce, including functional and non‑functional testing, and executing Test Plans and Regression Test Suites, including UI, back end, components and integrations, using Web and API automation
• Hands‑on experience developing automation test scripts from scratch and performing other test automation activities.
• Experience using tools like Micro Focus/OpenText, Performance Center (LoadRunner), Selenium Webdriver, and/or Cucumber with RESTful services, integrating them with Jenkins/GitHub.
• Expert experience developing testing documentation, such as Test Summary Reports and requirements traceability reports, and analyzing performance test reports to identify application and infrastructure performance issues and bottlenecks as well as assess and optimize network performance for maximum efficiency.
• Knowledge of API integration performance testing (REST, SOAP, GraphQL).
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to various stakeholders, management levels, and non‑technical audiences
• Candidate must be willing and able to obtain a CMS Public Trust clearance (T4).
• Candidate must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years.

Preferred Skills:

• Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant certification preferred
• Experience testing Salesforce-to-Snowflake ETL/ELT pipeline performance.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline integration for automated performance testing.
• Experience working and/or interfacing with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Ability to resolve issues with little oversight; ability to gather and analyze information skillfully and develop alternative solutions.
• Proficiency with data exchange tools and technologies including APIs.
• Experience understanding and interpreting customer business requirements, writing functional test cases and performing software quality tests.
• Experience with proactive monitoring of enterprise environments using technologies, such as New Relic, AppDynamics, DynaTrace, and/or Splunk.
• Expert understanding of Salesforce best practices.
• Experience testing real‑time data sync vs batch processing performance trade‑offs
• Experience working in a Scrum and/or SAFe Agile environment.
• Salesforce Administration experience.
• Experince using JMeter.
• Expert experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your ambition to deliver your best work.

The likely salary range for this position is $119,000 -