Performance Load Test Architect

About the Role

Title- Performance Load Test Architect/Lead

Location: Middletown, PA, (Hybrid - one day onsite in a month)

Duration: 8+ Months Interview:

Job Description: - Performance Load Test Architect/Lead *Remote Position w/ occasional travel*

Responsibilities

Performance Engineering Leadership

• 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 portal
• 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 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.

Qualifications

• Certifications / Education
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• NeoLoad certification preferred.
• Cloud certifications (Azure or AWS) are preferred.

Required Skills

• 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

Preferred Skills

• NeoLoad certification Highly desired.
• Cloud certifications (Azure or AWS) Highly desired.