Performance Test Engineer

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Performance Test Engineer position! This is a 12 month contract opportunity and will be hybrid in Wilmington DE. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

Position Overview

Our client a leading financial services organization is undergoing a strategic digital transformation to deliver high-performing reliable technology solutions. As a Performance Test Engineer youll play a critical role in ensuring the scalability stability and responsiveness of enterprise applications - primarily web-based and select client-server systems including both custom-built and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing and executing performance testing strategies integrating them into CI/CD pipelines and partnering closely with engineering teams to optimize application performance across technology stack.

What Youll Be Doing

Performance Testing Execution:

• Design develop and execute performance load and stress tests using JMeter and industry-standard approaches.
• Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks (CPU memory I/O database network) and recommend code/configuration optimizations.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab; author and maintain pipeline jobs artifacts and thresholds.

System Reliability & Scalability:

• Validate application performance under varying loads and peak events for web and client-server applications.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to embed performance considerations (capacity caching concurrency) in design and development.
• Partner with database engineers to tune queries indexes and connection strategies /SQL workloads.

Technical Architecture & Documentation:

• Create and maintain performance test plans scenarios scripts and data models; define entry/exit criteria and SLAs.
• Document performance benchmarks and trends; provide actionable insights for capacity planning and release readiness.
• Author clear defect reports and engineering recommendations with reproducible steps and supporting metrics.

Environment & Tooling:

• Leverage Azure (strong plus) for test environments scaling and monitoring; collaborate on infrastructure-as-code where applicable.
• Utilize monitoring and log analysis tools (e.g. Splunk ELK) to correlate performance metrics with system behavior and trace root causes.
• Work closely with DevOps to maintain test harnesses datasets synthetic users and environment parity across stages.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

• Embed performance testing into Agile/SAFe workflows (Definition of Ready/Done); participate in sprint ceremonies and release planning.
• Recommend tools frameworks and standards for performance engineering; coach developers and QA on profiling and tuning best practices.

Compliance:

• Ensure adherence to internal controls audit requirements and regulatory standards when testing storing and reporting performance data.

What Youll Need to Have

• Strong experience with Apache JMeter (test plan design parameterization correlation distributed testing and reporting)
• CI/CD: GitLab pipelines (YAML) test gating with pass/fail thresholds artifact management and integration builds
• .NET stack familiarity (C# .NET Entity Framework/SQL Server); ability to collaborate on code-level and config tuning
• Experience testing both web applications and client-server applications across custom and COTS solutions
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure for environment provisioning monitoring and scaling (strong plus)
• Familiarity with financial technology systems such as client management core banking payments or loan management
• Experience with vendor and contract management
• Strong technical leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Bachelors degree and 5 years of performance testing/QA experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Skills & Experience

• DevOps tools: Git GitLab Artifactory NuGet NPM NodeJS Docker Kubernetes Azure DevOps MS Build SonarQube
• Scripting: YAML PowerShell Linux/Bash Perl
• Jira Confluence
• Financial industry experience in institutional financial products such as Corporate Trust Accounts Investment Funds Bonds or Structured Finance

Pay Range:$77-$92/hr

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