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# Lead Performance Engineer

- **Company:** HS SOLUTIONS
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, HP Loadrunner, JSON, Apache JMeter, Next.js, Datadog, Performance Testing, Gatling, SOAPAPI, Git, Front End Software Development, Dynatrace, Api Management, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/41a8e880-faca-4f01-966b-d07ba9fd808f

## About the Role

Required Skills: Apache JMeter, performance engineering, Next.js testing, API automation, AWS infrastructure troubleshooting, and CI/CD.

Good to Have: LoadRunner, k6, Gatling, Datadog, Dynatrace, Jenkins, and Git.

## Description

* Design and lead performance testing strategies for enterprise, cloud, web, API, and microservices applications.
 * Develop and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests using JMeter or similar tools.
 * Perform frontend performance testing for Next.js applications and API testing for REST/JSON and SOAP services.
 * Analyze performance bottlenecks across applications, networks, and AWS infrastructure.
 * Monitor CPU, memory, I/O, network, and application metrics using APM tools.
 * Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and present findings and optimization recommendations.