Senior Performance Test Engineer: Scale & Optimize Apps

Insperity; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Insperity, located in the United States, is seeking a skilled Performance Test Engineer to collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Solution Designers, and QA to gather non-functional requirements, develop scripts, and analyze performance issues across Insperity’s portfolio.

You will design load, stress, spike and endurance tests, monitor performance using AppDynamics/NeoLoad, and deliver detailed reports while mentoring junior engineers.

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 is required.
• Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum model environment.
• Strong understanding of performance testing requirements and converting them to executable performance testing scripts.
• Strong understanding of automation/performance script creation using NeoLoad or other applicable performance test tools.

Responsibilities

• Act as an extended scrum team member on multiple teams and conduct system performance testing to ensure reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Users, and the Scrum team to identify performance requirements and develop a performance testing strategy.
• Design and execute various types of performance test scripts, including load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability tests.
• Monitor client-side and server-side performance using in-house and commercial tools.
• Analyze results, participate in root cause analysis, and provide improvement recommendations.
• Provide detailed level test reports.
• Collaborate with the Application Health and Performance team to monitor performance post-deployment and refine tests pre-production.
• Suggest new tools and techniques to improve testing efficiency.
• Provide training and assistance to Associate and Mid-Level Performance Test Engineers.

Skills

Performance testing

NeoLoad

SQL

Java

C#

.NET

AppDynamics

JProfiler

Visual Studio

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

NeoLoad

Visual Studio/TFS

AppDynamics

JProfiler

Job description

Insperity, located in the United States, is seeking a skilled Performance Test Engineer to collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Solution Designers, and QA to gather non-functional requirements, develop scripts, and analyze performance issues across Insperity’s portfolio.

You will design load, stress, spike and endurance tests, monitor performance using AppDynamics/NeoLoad, and deliver detailed reports while mentoring junior engineers.