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# QA Engineer - Performance & Load Testing

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Apache JMeter, Load Testing, WebSocket, Gatling, Event Driven Architecture
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9a209bca-42c7-4da7-9f67-75e900763242

## About the Role

* MUST HAVE: Extensive hands-on experience with named load-testing tools (k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust).
 * Strong background in testing HTTP/API and event/WebSocket traffic.
 * Proven ability to perform deep performance analysis (latency percentiles, error rates, throughput).
 * Demonstrated evidence of tracing bottlenecks and building scale-scenarios.
 * Commitment to working entirely as a hands-on individual contributor.
 * Design and execute comprehensive load and performance test scenarios.
 * Analyze complex system metrics to identify throughput limits and latency percentiles.
 * Trace and isolate infrastructure and application bottlenecks.
 * Partner with engineering teams to optimize performance for a large-scale platform merger.

## Description

Our client is a global financial services enterprise powering millions of daily consumer transactions. They are currently expanding their premium global dining division to support a major platform merger, requiring highly scalable, real-time infrastructure to handle high-volume traffic., They are looking for a Performance & Load Testing QA Engineer for a 100% hands-on, individual contributor role. You will ensure system stability during the integration of two major reservation platforms by designing complex load-test scenarios, analyzing latency percentiles, and tracking bottlenecks across APIs and event-driven architecture.