Performance & Resilience Test Engineer, Journeyman

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain performance, load, stress, spike, endurance, volume, scalability, failover, and recovery tests • Build automated regression, API, and integration tests for repeatable performance and resilience validation • Analyze mission workflows, usage patterns, transaction volumes, concurrency, data characteristics, interfaces, and operational objectives • Develop workload models for normal operations, peak demand, surge conditions, degraded environments, and recovery scenarios • Define test objectives, performance baselines, service thresholds, acceptance criteria, and measurable expected results • Develop test plans, scenarios, scripts, data, configurations, and execution schedules • Prepare and maintain representative test data for functional, high-volume, boundary, exception, failover, and recovery scenarios • Execute tests in Government-approved environments and automate execution through approved CI/CD pipelines where appropriate • Produce reproducible test results, logs, reports, metrics, graphs, and objective evidence • Measure and analyze response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, error rates, resource utilization, saturation, queue depth, and transaction completion • Establish performance baselines and compare results across builds, releases, configurations, environments, and infrastructure changes • Identify application, database, interface, network, cloud, infrastructure, configuration, and external-service bottlenecks • Correlate test results with application logs, infrastructure metrics, traces, events, and monitoring data • Work with technical teams to isolate root causes and recommend corrective actions • Validate failover behavior and approved recovery procedures • Validate recovery sequencing, data consistency, transaction handling, dependency restoration, and post-recovery functionality • Evaluate behavior during component failures, network interruptions, service degradation, capacity constraints, and dependency outages • Verify safe failure behavior, appropriate errors, alerts, retries, timeouts, and recovery behavior • Support disaster-recovery, continuity, restoration, and operational-readiness exercises • Document performance defects, resilience gaps, capacity risks, recovery failures, and release impacts • Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, correction verification, and targeted regression testing • Coordinate with architects, engineering teams, CI/CD engineers, and operations teams on scalability, capacity, observability, failover, and recovery • Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, release testing, and operational validation • Provide performance and resilience results, residual risks, and release-readiness recommendations to stakeholders • Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, data, and documentation in approved version-control repositories • Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities • Contribute to continuous improvement of performance engineering, workload modeling, observability, failover testing, and recovery validation

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category • At least six years of relevant professional experience • Experience designing and executing load and performance tests • Experience developing realistic workload models based on user behavior, transaction volumes, concurrency, or operational demand • Experience analyzing performance results and identifying application, integration, database, infrastructure, or network bottlenecks • Experience planning or executing failover tests • Experience validating system, application, service, or data recovery • Ability to build or maintain regression, API, integration, and automated test coverage • Ability to prepare and maintain representative test data • Ability to produce repeatable automated execution and reproducible test results • Ability to define measurable performance baselines, thresholds, acceptance criteria, and expected results • Ability to correlate test results with logs, metrics, traces, events, or other observability data • Ability to document performance defects, resilience gaps, capacity risks, recovery failures, and release impacts • CompTIA Security+ CE or another Government-approved certification satisfying the required IAT Level II qualification and applicable current DoD 8140 work-role requirements, when required for assigned duties • Strong analytical, automation, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and communication skills • Ability to collaborate effectively with architects, developers, integration engineers, database specialists, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity personnel, CI/CD engineers, operations teams, and Government stakeholders • Preferred: recognized performance-testing, software-testing, cloud, or site-reliability certification • Preferred: federal or Department of Defense program experience • Preferred: experience with mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, high-volume, or high-availability systems • Preferred: performance-testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, k6, NeoLoad, Locust, or comparable platforms • Preferred: test automation using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another supported programming language • Preferred: APIs, web services, event-driven systems, message brokers, databases, batch interfaces, or cloud-native services • Preferred: observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, or comparable platforms • Preferred: AWS, Azure, containers, Kubernetes, serverless services, or hybrid cloud environments • Preferred: CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable solutions • Preferred: site reliability engineering concepts, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, saturation, and capacity planning • Preferred: disaster-recovery testing, continuity exercises, recovery-time objectives, or recovery-point objectives • Preferred: resilience testing, controlled fault injection, or approved chaos-engineering practices • Preferred: Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable testing and collaboration tools • Preferred: Agile, DevSecOps, secure software-development, configuration-management, and release-management practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer • Resume and personal information may be considered for this position and other comparable positions through subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners