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Performance Test EngineerLighthouse Technology Services • Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Performance Test Engineer

Performance Test Engineer

Lighthouse Technology Services • Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Performance Test Engineer position! This is a 12 month contract opportunity and will be hybrid in Wilmington DE. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

Position Overview

Our client a leading financial services organization is undergoing a strategic digital transformation to deliver high-performing reliable technology solutions. As a Performance Test Engineer youll play a critical role in ensuring the scalability stability and responsiveness of enterprise applications - primarily web-based and select client-server systems including both custom-built and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing and executing performance testing strategies integrating them into CI / CD pipelines and partnering closely with engineering teams to optimize application performance across technology stack.

What Youll Be Doing

Performance Testing Execution :

  • Design develop and execute performance load and stress tests using JMeter and industry-standard approaches.
  • Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks (CPU memory I / O database network) and recommend code / configuration optimizations.
  • Integrate performance testing into CI / CD pipelines using GitLab; author and maintain pipeline jobs artifacts and thresholds.

System Reliability & Scalability :

  • Validate application performance under varying loads and peak events for web and client-server applications.
  • Collaborate with developers and architects to embed performance considerations (capacity caching concurrency) in design and development.
  • Partner with database engineers to tune queries indexes and connection strategies / SQL workloads.

    • Technical Architecture & Documentation :

  • Create and maintain performance test plans scenarios scripts and data models; define entry / exit criteria and SLAs.
  • Document performance benchmarks and trends; provide actionable insights for capacity planning and release readiness.
  • Author clear defect reports and engineering recommendations with reproducible steps and supporting metrics.

    • Environment & Tooling :

  • Leverage Azure (strong plus) for test environments scaling and monitoring; collaborate on infrastructure-as-code where applicable.
  • Utilize monitoring and log analysis tools (e.g. Splunk ELK) to correlate performance metrics with system behavior and trace root causes.
  • Work closely with DevOps to maintain test harnesses datasets synthetic users and environment parity across stages.

    • Collaboration & Continuous Improvement :

  • Embed performance testing into Agile / SAFe workflows (Definition of Ready / Done); participate in sprint ceremonies and release planning.
  • Recommend tools frameworks and standards for performance engineering; coach developers and QA on profiling and tuning best practices.

    • Compliance :

  • Ensure adherence to internal controls audit requirements and regulatory standards when testing storing and reporting performance data.

    • What Youll Need to Have :

  • Strong experience with Apache JMeter (test plan design parameterization correlation distributed testing and reporting)
  • Experience with LoadRunner.
  • CI / CD : GitLab pipelines (YAML) test gating with pass / fail thresholds artifact management and integration builds
  • .NET stack familiarity (C# .NET Entity Framework / SQL Server); ability to collaborate on code-level and config tuning
  • Experience testing both web applications and client-server applications across custom and COTS solutions
  • Exposure to Microsoft Azure for environment provisioning monitoring and scaling (strong plus)
  • Familiarity with financial technology systems such as client management core banking payments or loan management
  • Experience with vendor and contract management
  • Strong technical leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Bachelors degree and 5 years of performance testing / QA experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

    • Preferred Skills & Experience :

  • DevOps tools : Git GitLab Artifactory NuGet NPM NodeJS Docker Kubernetes Azure DevOps MS Build SonarQube
  • Scripting : YAML PowerShell Linux / Bash Perl
  • Jira Confluence
  • Financial industry experience in institutional financial products such as Corporate Trust Accounts Investment Funds Bonds or Structured Finance

    • Pay Range : $70-$80 / hr

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    IC

    Key Skills

    Account Management,Jpa,ABAP,Front Office,Financial Accounting,Assembling

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 70 - 80

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