Senior Performance Testing Engineer – NeoLoad

Job Title: Senior Performance Testing Engineer – NeoLoad
Location: Remote (Monthly 1 week onsite)
Duration: 8+ Months
Type: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Performance Load Test Architect/Lead to lead enterprise performance engineering and load testing initiatives for the Journi program. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in performance testing strategy, enterprise-scale application architecture, NeoLoad, capacity planning, workload modeling, and performance optimization across SAP, CRM, middleware, APIs, and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy, standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices.

• Develop 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 across Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Go-Live, and Hypercare.

• Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints.

• Provide technical leadership for capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, and performance optimization.

• Lead performance testing across SAP BRIM, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement, middleware, REST/SOAP APIs, batch processing, event-driven integrations, customer web portals, mobile applications, 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.

• Define enterprise monitoring strategies across applications, middleware, SAP, databases, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.

• Analyze 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.

• Lead the implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform.

• Develop reusable scripting frameworks, automated performance regression testing, performance dashboards, and executive reports.

• Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance teams.

• Maintain comprehensive technical and functional documentation, including architecture diagrams, test plans, test scripts, impact analysis reports, lessons learned, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall IT experience.

• 8+ years of enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience.

• 5+ years of experience 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, and infrastructure sizing.

• Hands-on experience with stress, endurance, spike, and failover testing.

• Experience with API and middleware performance testing, batch processing optimization, and cloud or hybrid infrastructure performance.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, leadership, communication, and documentation skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• NeoLoad certification.

• Azure or AWS cloud certifications.