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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT - Technical Test Lead | Performance Testing | Performance Testing - ALL - **Company:** Cloudspace LLC - **Location:** Denver, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $245,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Groovy, Apache JMeter, Python (Programming Language), Enterprise Messaging Systems, Reliability Engineering, Shell Script, Systems Architecture, Datadog, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Performance Testing, Grafana, Test Scripts, Caching, Scalability Testing, Blazemeter, Performance Monitor, Splunk, Appdynamics, Microservices, Data Generation - **Published:** July 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us69c5147c04588dbf4cbd04a19fa1680a ## About the Role 8+ years of experience in performance testing/performance engineering. Strong experience with performance testing tools such as: JMeter K6 BlazeMeter Hands-on experience with AI-assisted or AI-powered engineering tools used in performance analysis, test automation, observability, or operational intelligence. Strong understanding of: 1. System architecture 2. Distributed systems 3. Microservices 4. APIs 5. Databases 6. Caching 7. Messaging systems 8. Cloud-native platforms Experience analyzing performance metrics across application, infrastructure, and database layers. Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Groovy, or Shell. Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as: 1. Datadog 2. Splunk 3. Grafana 4. AppDynamics Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tools Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills. Minimum Years of Experience: 10+ years Certifications Needed ## Description Jmeter BlazeMeter K6 AI assisted engineering practices Nice to Have Skills: CI/CD Python Java Groovy Shell scripting, Client is seeking a highly skilled Performance Engineer with experience applying AI across the full performance engineering lifecycle. This role is responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of applications, platforms, and services through proactive performance planning, testing, monitoring, analysis, and optimization. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in traditional performance engineering practices with hands-on use of AI/ML-driven tools, automation, and analytics to improve test design, workload modeling, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, and continuous optimization., Design and execute end-to-end performance engineering strategies for web, API, database, cloud, and distributed systems. Build and maintain performance test frameworks for load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability testing. Use AI-enabled tools and methods to improve: 1. Test scenario generation 2. Workload modeling 3. Synthetic data generation 4. Test script creation and maintenance 5. Anomaly detection 6. Bottleneck identification 7. Root cause analysis 8. Predictive capacity planning Partner with development, QA, SRE, DevOps, product, and architecture teams to define performance requirements and non-functional acceptance criteria. Analyze application, infrastructure, database, and network behavior under load and provide actionable optimization recommendations. Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support shift-left performance practices. Leverage observability platforms and AI-assisted analytics to correlate logs, metrics, traces, and events. Establish performance baselines, SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for critical systems. Drive continuous improvement in performance engineering processes, tooling, governance, and automation. Mentor team members on both classical performance engineering techniques and emerging AI-assisted engineering practices., Overview: The position of E&I Engineer will provide technical direction to assigned design efforts pre-and post-award of projects and will report to the Engineering Department Ma… + 2 days ago, Overview: The position of E&I Engineer will provide technical direction to assigned design efforts pre-and post-award of projects and will report to the Engineering Department Ma… + 2 days ago + ## Related Videos - [Frontend Performance Testing in practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/8-frontend-performance-testing-in-practice) - [Give your build some love, it will give it back!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/514-give-your-build-some-love-it-will-give-it-back) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [AI-Native Enterprise Platforms: Interpreting Logic, Not Compiling Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1975-ai-native-enterprise-platforms-interpreting-logic-not-compiling-code) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [The 8 Best Code Testing Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/402-the-8-best-code-testing-tools) - [Benefits of Using JMeter For Performance Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/96-benefits-of-using-jmeter-for-performance-testing) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology)