Performance Tester – BlazeMeter

Position Description

This position requires someone to be in a hybrid office work setting in Cleveland, OH.

For this role on this particular client engagement, employer sponsorship of immigration related visa and/or green card status as part of the PERM process will not be available.

We are looking for an experienced Performance Tester to support performance, load, stress, and scalability testing for enterprise banking applications. The candidate should have strong hands on experience with BlazeMeter, along with a solid understanding of performance engineering concepts, test scripting, analysis, and troubleshooting.

The role will work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and application support teams to identify performance bottlenecks and ensure applications meet defined response time, throughput, scalability, and reliability expectations.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests using BlazeMeter.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance performance test scripts for web based applications and APIs.
• Create realistic workload models based on expected production transaction volumes and user behavior.
• Execute tests across different load levels and analyze application behavior under peak conditions.
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators including:
• Response times
• Throughput
• Transactions per second
• Error rates
• CPU and memory utilization
• Database and infrastructure performance
• Identify application, database, network, or infrastructure performance bottlenecks and work with technical teams on remediation.
• Analyze BlazeMeter test results and prepare clear findings and recommendations for project and technical teams.
• Perform baseline testing and compare results across application releases.
• Support performance testing of APIs, microservices, web applications, and integrated enterprise applications.
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure teams to ensure test environments and monitoring tools are ready for performance testing.
• Participate in test planning, defect management, root cause analysis, and release readiness discussions.
• Maintain performance testing documentation, test scenarios, scripts, test data, execution reports, and performance benchmarks.
• Support integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, where applicable.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

• Strong hands on experience with BlazeMeter.
• Experience with Apache JMeter, particularly because BlazeMeter based testing commonly uses JMeter scripts and test assets.
• Strong understanding of performance testing concepts including:
• Load testing
• Stress testing
• Endurance / soak testing
• Spike testing
• Scalability testing
• Experience developing performance test scripts for REST APIs and web applications.
• Good understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST, JSON, web services, and API testing.
• Experience with test parameterization, correlation, dynamic data handling, and test data management.
• Ability to analyze performance test results and identify bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers.
• Experience working with application and infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Good knowledge of SQL and ability to perform basic database analysis.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working within banking or financial services environments.
• Experience testing high volume, mission critical applications.
• Familiarity with cloud based and distributed application architectures.
• Exposure to tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or similar monitoring platforms.
• Experience integrating BlazeMeter/JMeter performance tests with Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or other CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments is a plus.

Other Information:

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $79,600.00 $176,300.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and well-being programs

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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