Remote Performance & Resilience Test Engineer

DecisionPoint Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Performance & Resilience Test Engineer to evaluate scalability, stability, and recovery capabilities of mission-critical software. You will develop regression, API, integration, load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests, create workload models, and provide evidence of system behavior under varying conditions.

Collaborate with architects, developers, cloud teams, DBAs, and government stakeholders while driving automated test suites and production-observation

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent.
• At least six years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing and executing load and performance tests.
• Experience developing realistic workload models based on user behavior, transactions, concurrency, or operational demand.
• Experience analyzing performance results and identifying bottlenecks.
• Experience planning or executing failover tests.
• Experience validating system, application, service, or data recovery.
• Ability to build or maintain regression, API, integration, and automated test coverage.
• Ability to prepare and maintain representative test data.
• Ability to produce repeatable automated execution and reproducible test results.
• Ability to define measurable performance baselines, thresholds, acceptance criteria, and expected results.
• Ability to correlate test results with logs, metrics, traces, events, or other observability data.
• Ability to document performance defects, resilience gaps, capacity risks, recovery failures, and release impacts.
• Strong analytical, automation, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and communication skills.

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 objectives.
• Develop workload models representing normal operations, peak demand, surge conditions, degraded environments, and recoveries.
• Define test objectives, baselines, service thresholds, acceptance criteria, and measurable results.
• Develop test plans, scenarios, scripts, data, configurations, and execution schedules.
• Prepare representative test data for various scenarios including boundary, failover, and recovery.
• Maintain repeatable processes for test-data creation, setup, refresh, reset, reconciliation, and cleanup.
• Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, performance, or 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 response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, error rates, resource utilization, saturation, and queue depth.
• Establish baselines and compare results across builds, releases, configurations, environments, and infrastructure changes.
• Identify bottlenecks and correlate results with logs, metrics, traces, and events.
• Work with teams to isolate root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Validate failover behavior for applications, services, databases, and infrastructure.
• Test approved recovery procedures and confirm service return to an acceptable state.
• Validate recovery sequencing, data consistency, and post-recovery functionality.
• Evaluate behavior during component failures, network interruptions, and capacity constraints.
• Verify safe failure modes, errors, retries, and recovery behavior.
• Support disaster-recovery, continuity, restoration, and readiness exercises.
• Document performance defects, resilience gaps, and release impacts.
• Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, and regression testing.
• Coordinate with architects and engineers to evaluate scalability and recovery approaches.
• Coordinate with CI/CD to integrate repeatable performance checks and quality gates.
• Coordinate with operations to incorporate production observations into testing.
• Support government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and release validation.
• Provide performance results, residual risks, and release-readiness recommendations to stakeholders.
• Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, and data in version-control repos.
• Participate in sprint rituals and continuous improvement of performance engineering.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

Stress testing

Workload modeling

Test automation

CI/CD integration

Root cause analysis

Data for tests

Documentation

Analytical skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Security certification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Engineering or related field

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Gatling

k6

NeoLoad

Locust

Job description

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Performance & Resilience Test Engineer to evaluate scalability, stability, and recovery capabilities of mission-critical software. You will develop regression, API, integration, load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests, create workload models, and provide evidence of system behavior under varying conditions.

Collaborate with architects, developers, cloud teams, DBAs, and government stakeholders while driving automated test suites and production-observation