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# Test Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Reliance One, Inc.
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,640 - $124,800
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Groovy, Apache JMeter, Python (Programming Language), Test Data, Web Applications, Web Testing, Scripting, Google Cloud, Performance Testing, Delivery Pipeline, Test Scripts, Backend, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/fd14b9b3-e3c8-4ac0-85f6-285504f01610/test-automation-engineer

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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.