Remote Lead Performance Test Engineer - Cloud & Resiliency

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 83,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

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

You will design and run performance, load, and chaos tests, build automated NeoLoad frameworks, and integrate tests into CI/CD with GitLab, while monitoring with CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus to improve

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience in performance testing/non-functional testing for enterprise apps.
• Hands-on experience with NeoLoad or a comparable enterprise performance testing tool.
• Experience integrating automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD or similar).
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Programming/scripting in Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting; testing REST APIs and microservices.

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 using GitLab CI/CD, including performance thresholds and quality gates.
• Analyze applications, database, infrastructure, network, and cloud performance to identify bottlenecks and provide optimization recommendations.
• Use AWS services and observability platforms (CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus) to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering and resiliency-testing exercises to evaluate fault tolerance and recovery capabilities.
• Develop automation utilities using Python, Java, SQL, APIs, and scripting to improve testing efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to define performance KPIs, standards, capacity requirements, and improvement plans.

Skills

Performance testing

NeoLoad

AWS

CI/CD

Programming (Python/Java/SQL)

Observability

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

Tools

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

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

You will design and run performance, load, and chaos tests, build automated NeoLoad frameworks, and integrate tests into CI/CD with GitLab, while monitoring with CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus to improve