Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer

Are you interested in working with the World's leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at QualityAI!

Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Performance Test Engineer with 7–12 years of experience to independently lead and execute complex end-to-end performance testing engagements across large-scale enterprise programs. This is a hands-on role requiring deep expertise in performance engineering, monitoring, analysis, and cloud-based application performance validation.

Location: Hybrid – NYC (2–3 days per week onsite)

Required Qualifications

• 7–12 years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering and Performance Testing.
• Strong expertise in LoadRunner and NeoLoad; working knowledge of JMeter.
• Proven experience owning performance test initiatives from strategy and scripting through execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience designing performance test approaches for bulk-processing workloads, including EDI transactions, batch processing, and file-based integrations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS CloudWatch, including monitoring and analysis of Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, and DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace and/or Splunk for performance analysis, troubleshooting, and custom dashboard creation.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of SQL performance tuning and identification of long-running queries across PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle.
• Experience developing utilities for test data generation, file simulation, and performance test support.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile environments and deliver results across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end performance testing efforts, including planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
• Design and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests for enterprise applications and integrations.
• Analyze application, database, and infrastructure performance to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Monitor system behavior using AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk, and other observability tools.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and architecture teams to resolve performance issues.
• Build and maintain performance testing frameworks, test data, and supporting utilities.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous performance validation.
• Deliver clear, actionable performance reports tailored to both technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI-assisted tools within performance testing workflows.
• Healthcare or insurance industry experience.
• Exposure to DB2.
• Performance testing experience with MuleSoft, Workato, Kafka, or Pega platforms.

Soft Skills

• Self-driven and capable of working independently with minimal oversight.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating within distributed onshore/offshore teams.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong attention to detail.

Benefits: Why QualityAI? QualityAI is an AI-first quality engineering company helping enterprises deploy and scale complex systems with greater confidence. Operating across data, models, platforms, infrastructure, and operational environments, the company provides assurance and engineering expertise that helps organizations ensure systems perform reliably in real-world conditions. Formerly Qualitest, QualityAI supports global enterprises across regulated and technology-driven industries, combining deep engineering heritage with AI-enabled delivery, operational assurance, and lifecycle expertise to help clients achieve certainty at go-live.

Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace - we are one, we are many at QualityAI. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. Local and global opportunities - we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career. Clear view of your career and progression with the company - QualityAI is growing massively (since Jan 2021 - added more than 2000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us. Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers. Never stop experimenting and learning with QualityAI Tech academy: 3000+ training courses, mentorship programs, technical tribes, sponsored certifications, leadership programs and much more. Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program's. Refer and earn - tap your network for net-worth. A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $110,000 to $125,000 USD Yearly