Performance Engineer

Job description

**Client Hiring Manager:** Mark Supinski **Standard Job Title:** Performance Test Engineer **Primary Skill:** Performance Testing and Engineering **Suggested Experience:** 5–8 years **Required Skills** - Strong performance testing and performance engineering experience - Advanced Apache JMeter experience - JMeter scripting, parameterization, correlation and workload modeling - Groovy and JSR223 scripting - Load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity and volume testing - Performance testing for web applications, APIs and microservices - Experience with New Relic and AWS cloud monitoring - Exposure to Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana or Prometheus - SQL, REST API, cloud and microservices experience - Jenkins, GitHub or Azure DevOps CI/CD experience - Experience analyzing application, infrastructure and database bottlenecks - Exposure to Generative AI or AI agents for performance testing is preferred **Role Summary** The Performance Test Engineer will create performance test strategies, scripts, scenarios and workload models; execute multiple forms of performance testing; monitor application and infrastructure behavior; identify bottlenecks; and provide optimization recommendations and performance reports. Please use the closest available METal skill mappings and job-title options where the exact wording is unavailable. Any remaining operational fields can be completed by the assigned talent team.