QA Engineer with Performance & Load Testing

Title                                       :  QA Engineer with Performance & Load Testing

Location                               :  New York, NY- Onsite

Duration                              : 6 months

Position                                 : W2 Position

Rate                                        :$45/hr 

Relevant Experience (in Yrs.): 7+

Detailed Job Description:

·         7+ years of QA Engineering experience with 4+ years focused on Performance Engineering and Load Testing.

·         Strong hands-on experience with k6, Locust, Gatling, J Meter, or equivalent performance testing tools.

·         Experience designing and executing load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests.

·         Expertise testing HTTP/REST APIs, Web Sockets, event-driven systems, Kafka, Pub/Sub, and messaging platforms.

·         Strong understanding of latency analysis, throughput measurement, concurrency testing, error rate analysis, and capacity

·         Design, develop, and execute comprehensive performance, load, stress, spike, and endurance testing strategies.

·         Create realistic workload models and traffic patterns that reflect production usage.

·         Execute performance testing across APIs, event streams, and real-time communication systems.

·         Analyze latency percentiles (P95/P99), throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and overall system behavior.

·         Identify and troubleshoot application, database, messaging, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

·         Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to validate remediation efforts.

·          Define performance benchmarks and validate system scalability against SLAs.

·          Develop automated performance testing solutions integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

·          Produce detailed performance reports and recommendations to improve system reliability and scalability.

·         Support release readiness assessments from a performance and scalability perspective."

Must Have Skills

·         Performance Engineering & Load Testing

·         k6

·         Workload Modeling & Distributed Load Testing

·         API/Micro services

·         Observability & Monitoring