Performance Engineer - 3665685

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Performance Engineer position! This is a 6-18 month contract-to-hire opportunity and will be hybrid in Buffalo, New York.






This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.





What You'll Be Doing:






- Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts and frameworks for web, API, mobile, cloud, and distributed applications
- Lead performance testing activities across all SDLC phases including planning, scripting, execution, analysis, and comprehensive reporting
- Develop and maintain performance test assets using OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) and related tooling
- Create and maintain automated performance test scripts using C and other applicable scripting languages
- Analyze performance test results using Dynatrace and other monitoring tools to identify bottlenecks, root causes, and optimization opportunities
- Collaborate with application development, architecture, database, middleware, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues
- Provide performance engineering guidance and best practices to development teams to support shift-left testing initiatives
- Review application architectures, designs, and requirements to proactively identify performance risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Develop performance test plans, workload models, success criteria, and executive-level performance reports
- Support capacity planning, scalability testing, resiliency testing, and failover validation efforts
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on performance testing methodologies and tools
- Participate in troubleshooting complex production and pre-production performance issues






What You'll Need to Have:






- 5+ years of professional experience in software testing and performance engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) or LoadRunner Enterprise
- Strong proficiency in C programming for developing and maintaining performance test scripts
- Proven experience with JMeter for performance testing and load testing activities
- Experience analyzing application performance, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and identifying root causes using APM tools like Dynatrace
- Demonstrated ability to work within Agile and DevOps environments with experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong collaborative mindset with ability to influence without authority and partner effectively across multiple teams
- Proven organizational skills with ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple concurrent performance testing initiatives






Pay Range: $55-60+/hr





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Skills:

Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Apache JMeter, Application Programming Interface (API), Best Practices, C Programming Language, Capacity Management, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Middleware Software, DevOps, Distributed Applications, Establish Priorities, Failover, Identify Issues, Load Testing, LoadRunner, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Organizational Skills, Performance Analysis, Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Quality Assurance Methodology, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, Scalability Testing, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Administration, Software Design, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Testing, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Test Scripts, Test Tools, Testing, Validation Testing



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