Performance Load Test Architect Lead / Full-Time / Hybrid / Middletown, PA

Performance Load Test Architect Lead / Full-Time / Hybrid / Middletown, PA

Become a member of a growing team of Information Technology professionals making an impact and providing solutions for Government and Commercial clients since 1996 Join the Domino Tech Team!

Accepting Candidates Until 10/20/2026 at 2:00 PM

The Position:
Client: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC)
Position Title: PTC - Performance Load Test Architect Lead Exception (814006)
Location: Hybrid; Remote Off-Site and On-Site in Middletown, PA

Note: This position is hybrid; primarily remote off-site with occasional on-site. In addition to the PA ePATCH background check, PTC requires a National Criminal Background Check prior to engagement start.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is looking for a Performance Load Test Architect Lead for their Journi UBOS project;
- Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program.
- Develop enterprise performance testing standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices.
- Define workload models using historical production metrics and anticipated business growth.
- Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), service level agreements (SLAs), and performance acceptance criteria.
- Lead performance planning activities for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints early in the SDLC.
- Provide technical leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations.
Performance Engineering Leadership:
- Lead performance testing across:
- SAP BRIM
- SAP Convergent Mediation (CM)
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP Datasphere
- Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement
- Middleware
- REST/SOAP APIs
- Batch processing
- Event-driven integrations
- Customer web portal
- Mobile applications
- IVR and chatbot platforms
- Define enterprise load profiles for concurrent users, transaction volumes, billing cycles, payment processing, toll transactions, financial processing, and customer service operations.
- Review and approve performance test plans, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules developed by performance analysts.
Architecture, Monitoring & Analysis:
- Define enterprise monitoring strategy across application, middleware, SAP, database, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
- Analyze application response times, throughput, resource utilization, JVM metrics, database performance, middleware queues, API latency, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Lead root-cause analysis with development, SAP, CRM, infrastructure, middleware, and vendor teams.
- Recommend application tuning, database optimization, infrastructure scaling, and configuration improvements.
- Validate system readiness for production deployment.
Tooling & Automation:
- Lead implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform.
- Define reusable scripting frameworks and standards.
- Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases.
- Develop performance dashboards and executive reporting.
Collaboration & Leadership:
- Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance boards.
- Fully document all created work associated with this position, including technical and functional designs and diagrams, test plans, test scripts, impact analysis reports, lessons learned, best practices for others to follow, plus any other documentation as required by the Commission. This documentation shall follow the format and / or templates as instructed by the Commission.
- Adhere to and follow all The Commission standards, policies, and procedures.

The Skills and Experience:
- 12+ Years: IT testing experience
- 8+ Years: Enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience
- 4+ Years: Leading enterprise performance testing initiatives
- Expert-level experience with NeoLoad
- Experience with SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP Datasphere, CRM platforms, APIs, middleware, and enterprise integrations
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
- NeoLoad certification is highly desired
- Cloud certifications (Azure or AWS) are highly desired

The Company:
The mission of Domino Technologies, Inc. is to provide clients with IT solutions for their individual business processes that lead to strategic market advantages. Since its founding in 1996, the Domino Tech Team has built a solid record of performance working with clients in the Government and Commercial sectors.

The Perks:
- Excellent Market Salary
- Competitive Benefits
- Paid Holidays and Vacation
- Positive Work-Life Balance

The Location:
Domino Technologies is based in the Harrisburg area the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Dauphin County. Located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, Harrisburg is the anchor of the Susquehanna Valley metropolitan area.

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