Performance Testing EngineerGuidehouse

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, scalability, and endurance test plans for enterprise applications and systems.
• Utilize LoadRunner to create test scripts, execute performance tests, and analyze system behavior under varying workloads.
• Establish performance baselines and identify application, infrastructure, database, network, and system bottlenecks.
• Analyze test results and provide actionable recommendations to improve scalability, reliability, and overall system performance.
• Translate Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and non-functional requirements into measurable performance testing objectives.
• Conduct trend analysis using historical performance data to develop workload forecasts and capacity projections.
• Support capacity planning activities by building performance models and assessing future growth demands.
• Perform performance testing within cloud environments, including AWS and Azure.
• Leverage monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, and similar technologies to identify and diagnose performance issues.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, architecture, and operations teams to resolve performance-related challenges.
• Prepare performance assessment reports, dashboards, and presentations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support both mainframe and web-based application environments to ensure performance and scalability objectives are achieved.

What You Will Need:

• United States Citizenship.
• Requires a University Degree and minimum ZERO to TWO (0-2) years of prior relevant experience; FOUR (4) years of relevant experience of may be substituted for formal education
• Ability to work on client site in New Carrolton, MD five days a week.
• TWO (2) years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or systems performance analysis.
• Experience with performance testing and system tuning to ensure applications meet scalability requirements.
• Experience with LoadRunner for designing, executing and analyzing performance tests.
• Skilled in bottleneck analysis and establishing performance baselines.
• Understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and non-functional requirements and translating them into testing objectives.
• Experience producing forecasts and workload projections based on trend analysis and historical data.
• Knowledge of cloud performance testing (AWS, Azure).
• Strong skills in analyzing test results and findings to provide actionable recommendations.
• Experience with capacity planning frameworks and building performance models to anticipate future growth and demand.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools for performance testing, such as AppDynamics or Splunk, to identify and analyze bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with mainframe and web-based performance systems.
  

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Prior experience working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as an employee or a contractor (preferably within the last six months).
• Experience supporting large-scale Federal or Public Sector technology programs.
• Experience with additional performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or NeoLoad.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized environments.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD or DevSecOps pipelines.
• Knowledge of application monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical transactional systems.
• Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), performance testing, or systems engineering.
• Experience presenting performance findings and recommendations to executive and program leadership stakeholders.