Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Performance Engineer position! This is a 6-18 month contract-to-hire opportunity and will be hybrid in Buffalo, New York.
This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts and frameworks for web, API, mobile, cloud, and distributed applications
- Lead performance testing activities across all SDLC phases including planning, scripting, execution, analysis, and comprehensive reporting
- Develop and maintain performance test assets using OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) and related tooling
- Create and maintain automated performance test scripts using C and other applicable scripting languages
- Analyze performance test results using Dynatrace and other monitoring tools to identify bottlenecks, root causes, and optimization opportunities
- Collaborate with application development, architecture, database, middleware, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues
- Provide performance engineering guidance and best practices to development teams to support shift-left testing initiatives
- Review application architectures, designs, and requirements to proactively identify performance risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Develop performance test plans, workload models, success criteria, and executive-level performance reports
- Support capacity planning, scalability testing, resiliency testing, and failover validation efforts
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on performance testing methodologies and tools
- Participate in troubleshooting complex production and pre-production performance issues
What You'll Need to Have:
- 5+ years of professional experience in software testing and performance engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) or LoadRunner Enterprise
- Strong proficiency in C programming for developing and maintaining performance test scripts
- Proven experience with JMeter for performance testing and load testing activities
- Experience analyzing application performance, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and identifying root causes using APM tools like Dynatrace
- Demonstrated ability to work within Agile and DevOps environments with experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong collaborative mindset with ability to influence without authority and partner effectively across multiple teams
- Proven organizational skills with ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple concurrent performance testing initiatives
Pay Range: $55-60+/hr
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