Senior Performance Testing Engineer (Test Engineer III)

Pinnacle Group, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Dominion Energy is seeking a Senior Performance Testing Engineer to lead and support enterprise performance testing initiatives. This role will plan, coordinate, execute, and analyze performance tests to ensure scalability, reliability, and production readiness.

The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, BlazeMeter, and OpenText ALM/Quality Center, along with strong expertise in performance testing methodologies, tool

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software or application testing experience.
• Experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, ALM/Quality Center, BlazeMeter.
• ALM migration, administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience testing protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, ODBC/JDBC, Citrix, SAP protocol.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Excellent communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive performance testing strategies, plans, and workloads.
• Execute load, stress, scalability, and endurance tests.
• Analyze results to identify bottlenecks and risks.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, architecture, and DB teams to resolve issues.
• Validate production readiness for deployments.

Skills

Performance testing

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

LoadRunner/VuGen

LRE Performance Center

BlazeMeter

OpenText ALM/Quality Center

Job description

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Local or commuting-distance candidates only

Schedule: 5 days per week, 8 hours per day (hybrid schedule)

Contract Duration: November 23, 2026 – November 20, 2027

Max pay Rate: $75/hr W2 + benefits (no 1099/c2c allowed)

Openings: 1

Department: Data Analytics

Site: Thomas F. Farrell II Building

Position Overview

Dominion Energy is seeking a Senior Performance Testing Engineer to lead and support enterprise application performance testing initiatives. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and analyzing performance tests to ensure application scalability, reliability, and production readiness.

The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, BlazeMeter, and OpenText ALM/Quality Center, along with strong expertise in performance testing methodologies, tool administration, and troubleshooting.

This individual will collaborate with application development teams, architects, infrastructure engineers, database administrators, vendors, and business stakeholders to identify performance bottlenecks, mitigate risks, and improve overall system performance.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of software or application testing experience, including significant hands-on performance testing.

Strong experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, ALM/Quality Center, BlazeMeter, or comparable enterprise performance testing tools.

Hands-on experience with ALM migration, administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Experience developing and executing load, stress, scalability, volume, concurrency, and endurance tests.

Knowledge of performance testing protocols and technologies, including:

HTTP/HTTPS and TruClient

REST APIs and web services

ODBC/JDBC

Citrix

Client/server applications

SAP protocol

Experience analyzing application and infrastructure monitoring data to identify performance issues and bottlenecks.

Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization skills.

Ability to document test strategies, execution results, performance findings, and recommendations.

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Testing & Engineering

Develop comprehensive performance testing strategies, plans, scenarios, workloads, and test scripts aligned with business and technical requirements.

Execute load, stress, scalability, volume, concurrency, and endurance testing using LoadRunner/VuGen, LRE Performance Center, and BlazeMeter.

Analyze performance test results to identify application bottlenecks, scalability limitations, and infrastructure risks.

Collaborate with development, infrastructure, architecture, and database teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

Validate application performance, reliability, and readiness for production deployment.

Performance Testing Tools Administration

Administer and support OpenText ALM/Quality Center and LRE Performance Center.

Manage testing projects, environments, load generators, configurations, and platform upgrades.

Support ALM migration activities, system maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Resolve incidents and service requests related to performance testing tools and environments.

Ensure testing platforms remain stable, available, and properly configured.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Reporting

Coordinate performance testing activities across development, infrastructure, database, and business teams.

Document test execution results, performance findings, risks, and recommendations.

Communicate testing progress, issues, and outcomes to technical teams and business stakeholders.

Support production-readiness reviews and deployment decisions.

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior team members.

Process Improvement & Automation

Identify opportunities to improve performance testing methodologies, standards, and processes.

Enhance testing automation and tool utilization.

Recommend improvements to testing environments, workflows, and overall testing efficiency.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Technology, or Computer Engineering.

Preferred Experience

Experience working in a regulated industry.

Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications and complex infrastructure environments.

Strong understanding of performance testing governance, enterprise testing standards, and production-readiness processes.

Candidate Location

Must be local to Richmond, VA, or within commuting distance.

Travel

Not required.

Certifications

None required.

Sensitive Information

Position involves access to private personal information, company-sensitive information, or credit-sensitive information.

• Driving: No company or client vehicle driving required.