Lead Performance Tester

Vega is Hiring! Lead Performance Tester with recent healthcare experience for our direct client. Candidates will be required to travel to the client site at least 2x a month. Candidates must live within a commutable distance to Reston, Virginia area., Leads and performs performance testing, performance engineering, and scalability analysis for enterprise applications, cloud-native platforms, data warehouse solutions, and data lake ecosystems. Defines performance test strategies, designs realistic workload models, develops and executes performance tests using tools such as NeoLoad, and analyzes system behavior across application, database, infrastructure, and cloud layers. Collaborates with product, development, architecture, infrastructure, and operations teams to identify performance risks, establish baselines, validate non-functional requirements, and provide actionable recommendations to improve throughput, reliability, resiliency, and user experience.

Must have hands-on experience with performance test scripting and execution using LoadRunner and Neoload tools., * 5+ years experience in performance testing, resiliency testing, performance engineering, or quality engineering for enterprise applications, including hands-on experience with workload modeling, performance test design, resiliency test scenarios, failover validation, test execution, monitoring, bottleneck analysis, recovery analysis, and results reporting.

• Experience with NeoLoad or similar performance testing tools, CI/CD performance test automation, cloud platforms such as AWS, database performance validation, and large-scale data warehouse or data lake environments is preferred.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise., Advanced
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships., Advanced
• Knowledge and understanding of performance testing lifecycle, SDLC, Agile delivery, and non-functional requirements validation., Advanced
• Proficient with integrating performance testing into complex enterprise systems, cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, data warehouse platforms, and data lake pipelines., Advanced
• Knowledge of scripting, programming, or query languages used in performance testing and analysis, such as JavaScript, Java, Groovy, Python, SQL, or shell scripting., Proficient
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Advanced
• Knowledge of cloud technologies with emphasis on AWS-native applications, cloud scalability, auto-scaling behavior, monitoring, observability, resiliency testing, failover validation, recovery analysis, and capacity validation., Advanced
• Knowledge of database and data platform technologies, including SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, data warehouse platforms, data lake environments, ETL/ELT pipelines, and large-scale data ingestion performance., Advanced
• Knowledge of performance engineering best practices, resiliency testing practices, cloud performance patterns, agile methodologies, observability, CI/CD pipelines, automated performance test gates, and continuous performance testing practices., Advanced
• Knowledge of test automation practices, test data management, workload modeling, API testing, service virtualization, CI/CD performance test automation, and integration of performance tests into automated delivery pipelines., Advanced
• Strong experience with NeoLoad or comparable performance testing tools, cloud monitoring tools, deployment/continuous integration/continuous testing/continuous delivery processes, CI/CD performance test automation, and performance reporting dashboards., Advanced
• Knowledge of Code quality and promotion practices, Advanced, If you have the required Lead Performance Test experience, select Apply Now - and a Vega consulting Staffing Specialist will reach out to you.