Senior Performance Test Engineer

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer for a Richmond, VA onsite contract role. The position requires hands-on performance testing with enterprise tools and collaboration across multiple IT teams.

Responsibilities include designing performance test strategies, executing tests, and analyzing results to drive production readiness. The ideal candidate has strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills and will mentor teammates.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software or application testing experience, including hands-on performance testing.
• Strong experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, and OpenText ALM/Quality Center.
• Experienced with ALM migration, administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance test strategies, test plans, scenarios, workloads, and scripts based on requirements.
• Execute load, stress, scalability, and endurance tests.
• Create and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, BlazeMeter.
• Administer, configure, migrate, and troubleshoot ALM/Quality Center and LRE environments.
• Manage test environments, load generators, configurations, upgrades, incidents, and service requests.
• Analyze test results and monitoring data to identify bottlenecks and recommend solutions.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to resolve performance issues.
• Prepare reports and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
• Coordinate testing activities and support production-readiness decisions.
• Provide technical guidance to team members and improve testing standards.

Skills

LoadRunner/VuGen

OpenText ALM/Quality Center

BlazeMeter

Performance testing

Test automation

Troubleshooting

Tools

LoadRunner

VuGen

LRE Performance Center

OpenText ALM/Quality Center

BlazeMeter

Job description

Immediate need for a talented Senior Performance Test Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Richmond, VA(Onsite).

Job ID: 26-33909

Pay Range: $65/hr - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop performance test strategies, test plans, scenarios, workloads, and scripts based on business and technical requirements.
• Execute load, stress, scalability, volume, concurrency, and endurance tests.
• Create and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, BlazeMeter, or comparable tools.
• Administer, configure, migrate, and troubleshoot OpenText ALM/Quality Center and LRE Performance Center environments.
• Manage test environments, load generators, configurations, upgrades, incidents, and service requests.
• Analyze test results and application monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend solutions.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, database, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues.
• Prepare performance test reports, document findings, track risks, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
• Coordinate testing activities and support production-readiness decisions.
• Provide technical guidance to team members and improve performance testing standards, tools, and processes.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 10+ years of software or application testing experience, including hands‑on performance testing.
• Strong experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, and OpenText ALM/Quality Center.
• Experience with ALM migration, administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with BlazeMeter or comparable enterprise performance testing tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate with technical and business teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise‑level applications and complex testing environments.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Experience mentoring team members and improving testing processes.

Our client is a leading Utilities Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.