QE - Architect - Performance Engineer
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
8+ years in performance engineering/testing, 3+ in a lead/architect role.
CA, Newport Beach, 92660FUlltime PermanentMust Have Technical/Functional Skills
8+ years in performance engineering/testing, 3+ in a lead/architect role.
Tools: JMeter/Gatling/k6, Dynatrace/New Relic/AppD, Open Telemetry/Jaeger.
Strong in profiling (e.g., JFR/Async-Profiler), SQL tuning, and microservices/Kubernetes.
Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps).
Excellent stakeholder communication and documentationRoles & Responsibilities
Define performance NFRs, budgets, SLO/SLIs per service/user flow.
Architect and own load, stress, spike, soak, concurrency test suites and test data.
Embed performance gates in CI/CD; enable shift-left with reusable harnesses.
Analyze results with APM/tracing; pinpoint hotspots (CPU, GC, I/O, DB, locks).
Recommend and track code/config/DB/infra optimizations with before/after metrics.
Lead capacity modeling & scaling plans; ensure release perf readiness.
Create playbooks/dashboards, coach teams on best practices.