Remote Lead Performance Test Engineer

Cognizant; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 83,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to lead and execute performance engineering initiatives for complex enterprise and cloud-native apps. This remote role in the United States requires deep expertise in performance testing, automation, cloud platforms, observability, and resiliency.

You will design strategies, build automated frameworks with NeoLoad, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, while using AWS services and tools like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or non-functional testing for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with NeoLoad or a comparable enterprise performance testing tool, including test design, workload modeling, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience integrating automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or similar automation platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures, including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Programming and scripting in Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting, with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity-testing strategies for enterprise applications, APIs, and cloud-based services.
• Build and maintain automated performance-testing frameworks using NeoLoad and custom solutions.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines with thresholds and quality gates.
• Analyze performance across application, database, infrastructure, network, and cloud to identify bottlenecks and optimize.
• Use AWS services and observability tools to troubleshoot complex performance issues.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering and resiliency-testing to evaluate fault tolerance and recovery.
• Develop automation utilities using Python, Java, SQL, APIs, and scripting to improve testing efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to define performance KPIs, standards, capacity needs, and improvement plans.

Skills

Performance testing

Automation

Cloud platforms

Observability

Site Reliability Engineering

Python

Java

SQL

Shell scripting

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

AWS CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Tools

NeoLoad

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

ECS

EKS

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to lead and execute performance engineering initiatives for complex enterprise and cloud-native apps. This remote role in the United States requires deep expertise in performance testing, automation, cloud platforms, observability, and resiliency.

You will design strategies, build automated frameworks with NeoLoad, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, while using AWS services and tools like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and