Test Automation Engineer

• Reliance One, Inc. is hiring an experienced Test Automation Engineer for one of our established technology clients in Plano, Texas.
• The Test Automation Engineer will design, execute, and analyze performance tests for applications, APIs, and backend services. This position requires strong hands-on experience with k6 and JMeter, with k6 serving as the primary performance-testing tool.
• The ideal Test Automation Engineer can identify performance bottlenecks, interpret complex test results, and work with development and infrastructure teams to recommend effective solutions., * Build, maintain, and enhance performance-testing scripts using k6 and JMeter.
• Use k6 as the primary performance-testing platform and JMeter as a secondary tool.
• Design and execute load, stress, scalability, soak, spike, and endurance tests.
• Test web applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Analyze response times, throughput, error rates, latency, CPU usage, memory consumption, and other system-performance metrics.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and collaborate with technical teams to determine root causes.
• Recommend application, infrastructure, database, API, or configuration improvements.
• Define performance goals, test scenarios, workloads, benchmarks, and success criteria.
• Create clear performance-test reports and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.
• Support system benchmarking, capacity planning, and scalability assessments.
• Analyze application logs, monitoring data, and infrastructure metrics.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain reusable test scripts, documentation, test data, and reporting standards.
• Support continuous improvement of performance-testing processes and tools.

• Five to 12 years of overall professional experience.
• Strong experience in performance testing and test automation.
• Three to five years of hands-on experience using k6.
• Deep knowledge of k6 and JMeter.
• Experience designing and executing load, stress, soak, spike, endurance, and scalability tests.
• Experience testing APIs across multiple API architectures.
• Experience testing web applications and backend services.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, cookies, sessions, headers, and authentication.
• Ability to analyze logs, system metrics, monitoring data, and performance-test results.
• Scripting experience with JavaScript, Groovy, or Python.
• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and recommending corrective actions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or a similar CI/CD platform.
• Experience integrating automated performance tests into deployment pipelines.
• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Experience supporting Amazon EKS or a similar managed Kubernetes environment.
• Experience with cloud-based performance testing, capacity planning, and application benchmarking.
• Familiarity with observability and application-performance monitoring tools.

Top Skills

• k6 performance testing
• JMeter performance testing
• API and web application testing
• Performance analysis and bottleneck identification
• CI/CD, cloud, and Kubernetes environments