Job Title: Performance Load Test Architect/Lead Duration: 8+ months Location: Middletown, PA (Remote Position w/ occasional travel)
Note: * The resource shall attend onsite meetings at one of the Commission Middletown PA locations for 1 week per month based on the schedule set by the client *
Job Description of Duties
Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program.
Develop enterprise performance testing standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices.
Define workload models using historical production metrics and anticipated business growth.
Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), service level agreements (SLAs), and performance acceptance criteria.
Lead performance planning activities for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints early in the SDLC.
Provide technical leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations.
Performance Engineering Leadership
Lead performance testing across:
o SAP BRIM o SAP Convergent Mediation (CM) o SAP S/4HANA o SAP Datasphere o Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement o Middleware o REST/SOAP APIs o Batch processing o Event-driven integrations o Customer web portal o Mobile applications o IVR and chatbot platforms
Define enterprise load profiles for concurrent users, transaction volumes, billing cycles, payment processing, toll transactions, financial processing, and customer service operations.
Review and approve performance test plans, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules developed by performance analysts.
Architecture, Monitoring & Analysis
Define enterprise monitoring strategy across application, middleware, SAP, database, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
Analyze application response times, throughput, resource utilization, JVM metrics, database performance, middleware queues, API latency, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
Lead root-cause analysis with development, SAP, CRM, infrastructure, middleware, and vendor teams.
Recommend application tuning, database optimization, infrastructure scaling, and configuration improvements.
Validate system readiness for production deployment.
Tooling & Automation
Lead implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform.
Define reusable scripting frameworks and standards.
Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases.
Develop performance dashboards and executive reporting.
Collaboration & Leadership
Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance boards.
Fully document all created work associated with this position, including technical and functional designs and diagrams, test plans, test scripts, impact analysis reports, lessons learned, best practices for others to follow, plus any other documentation as required by the Commission. This documentation shall follow the format and / or templates as instructed by the Commission.
Adhere to and follow all The Commission standards, policies, and procedures.
Minimum Experience/Skillset
12+ years of overall IT experience.
8+ years of enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience.
5+ years leading enterprise performance testing initiatives.
Expert-level experience with NeoLoad.
Experience architecting performance testing solutions for enterprise-scale applications.
Strong experience with SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP Datasphere, CRM platforms, APIs, middleware, and enterprise integrations.
Experience designing production workload models using historical production metrics.
Strong knowledge of:
Capacity planning
Performance engineering
Scalability architecture
Stress, endurance, spike, and failover testing
API and middleware performance testing
Batch processing optimization
Cloud and hybrid infrastructure performance
Performance monitoring and diagnostics
Certifications / Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
NeoLoad certification preferred.
Cloud certifications (Azure or AWS) are preferred.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Middletown, PA (Remote)
Skills
Acceptance Testingunmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Automationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Billingunmatched
Business Growthunmatched
Capacity Managementunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Concurrencyunmatched
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
Customer Service Operationsunmatched
Database Optimizationunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Failoverunmatched
Hybrid Cloudunmatched
Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
Internet Portalunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Load Testingunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Microsoft Dynamics CRMunmatched
Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
Middlewareunmatched
NeoLoadunmatched
Payment Processingunmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Performance Engineeringunmatched
Performance Testingunmatched
Production Systemsunmatched
Regression Testingunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
SAPunmatched
Schedule Developmentunmatched
Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
Service Level Agreement (SLA)unmatched
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
System Validationunmatched
Systems Engineeringunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Test Designunmatched
Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
Test Scriptsunmatched
Testingunmatched
Transaction Processing/Managementunmatched
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