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Performance Testing Engineer

Thunderhawk Technology PartnersSan Antonio, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 22 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This on-site role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead critical performance engineering initiatives, shaping best practices and driving significant impact in a cloud-native environment. You'll thrive here if you possess deep expertise in performance testing, Java, and containerized applications, eager to tackle complex challenges and optimize distributed systems.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: Performance Testing Consultant
Location: San Antonio, TX (100% onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Experience: 7+ years
 
Role Overview: The consultant will lead performance engineering initiatives across distributed applications, establishing standards and best practices while driving end-to-end performance testing, analysis, and tuning in a cloud-native, containerized environment.
 
Responsibilities
  • Develop performance engineering standards, strategies, and best practices.
  • Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and benchmark tests for distributed applications.
  • Perform deep root-cause analysis using JVM analysis, thread/heap dumps, DB diagnostics, infra monitoring, and observability tooling to resolve bottlenecks.
  • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and champion shift-left practices.
  • Tune and optimize distributed applications running on OpenShift/Kubernetes (or similar platforms).
  • Lead complex performance investigations and influence app, infra, and architecture decisions.
 
Required Skills
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Performance Testing and Engineering (7+ years).
  • Solid knowledge of Java, APIs, microservices, message queues, containerized apps, and cloud platforms.
  • Experience with observability platforms: Splunk, Broadcom DX, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace (or similar).
  • Proficiency with performance tools: StresStimulus, JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or k6.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) for log analysis and faster troubleshooting.
     
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