Senior Performance Test Engineer — Reliability & Scale

65 Insperity Support Services, L.P.; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Insperity is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join a cross-functional team responsible for gathering non-functional requirements, developing performance tests, and analyzing issues across Insperity’s portfolio.

The role emphasizes scripting, automation with NeoLoad, and capacity planning within an Agile/Scrum setting, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to test strategy and tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• Five to seven years of professional experience with performance testing, including scripting and/or software development.
• Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Strong understanding of performance testing requirements and converting them to executable tests.
• Strong understanding of automation/performance scripts using NeoLoad or similar tools.
• Knowledge of parameterization, checkpoints, reusable functions, correlations, iterations, pacing and think time.
• Proficient in Performance Workload Modeling and Capacity Planning.
• Experience analyzing client-side statistics like response times, throughput, etc.
• Knowledge of web servers, application servers and databases (e.g., Apache, IIS, Tomcat, JBoss, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL).
• Experience with monitoring server performance counters using AppDynamics or similar tools.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as an extended scrum team member on multiple teams and conduct system performance testing for reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to identify performance requirements and testing strategy.
• Design and run load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability test scripts per application requirements.
• Monitor client-side and server-side performance with in-house and commercial tools.
• Analyze results, perform root-cause analysis, and provide improvement recommendations.
• Provide detailed test reports and metrics.
• Coordinate with Application Health and Performance team to refine tests post-deployment.
• Suggest new tools/techniques to improve testing efficiency.
• Train and mentor Associate and Mid-Level Performance Test Engineers.

Skills

Performance testing

Scripting

NeoLoad

SQL

Java/C#/.NET

AppDynamics

Performance testing analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

NeoLoad

Visual Studio/TFS

Fiddler

JProfiler

JConsole/VisualVM

Job description

Insperity is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join a cross-functional team responsible for gathering non-functional requirements, developing performance tests, and analyzing issues across Insperity’s portfolio.

The role emphasizes scripting, automation with NeoLoad, and capacity planning within an Agile/Scrum setting, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to test strategy and tooling.