Performance Tester – Platform Engineer

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⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

💵 $96.6k - $130.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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LouisianaNOW. Jobs is a regional jobs portal and talent attraction site focused on connecting job seekers to employers and economic opportunities across Louisiana. The site highlights regional communities, industry sectors, current employers who are hiring, career advice articles, and job listings, and appears to be operated or supported by LED FastStart (Louisiana Economic Development). It’s positioned as a marketplace that promotes Louisiana’s growing industries and helps match talent with local openings and employer investment announcements.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute performance, load, stress, and endurance tests • Define performance benchmarks and KPIs based on SLAs, SOW requirements, and user load models • Build, configure, and maintain performance test environments in AWS • Design test scripts and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines • Conduct baseline performance analysis and capacity planning for CMM components • Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and QA teams to identify bottlenecks and tune configurations • Analyze test results and prepare performance reports with optimization recommendations • Validate releases against federal performance and reliability standards before production deployment • Support failover and stress testing to verify fault tolerance and scalability • Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide performance insights during sprint planning and retrospectives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field • 5+ years of experience with integration, regression, and system testing using automated testing tools in web-based applications • 5+ years of software performance testing and engineering experience • 3+ years of experience with cloud-based or distributed systems • Experience writing test cases and test plans, executing test scripts, reporting defects, and preparing test results reports • Experience across the entire QA life cycle and QA documentation process • Strong proficiency in JavaScript for scripting, test development, and automation • Experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or K6 • Strong knowledge of performance engineering principles, concurrency modeling, resource utilization, and tuning • Experience testing AWS environments, including EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, and RDS • Working understanding of NodeJS, REST APIs, microservices, and ReactJS • Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines • Ability to interpret logs, metrics, and profiling data • Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, or Grafana • Experience with federal or enterprise-scale application performance testing • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift • Understanding of network performance testing and distributed tracing • Exposure to AI-driven performance analytics or predictive capacity modeling • Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization • Excellent presentation, communication, analytical, documentation, problem-solving, and recommendation skills • Ability to work with high-level customer stakeholders and build customer relationships • Experience applying industry tools, solutions, methods, best practices, and emerging technologies • Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team • Ability to obtain a position of Public Trust with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts • Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen • Travel requirement of less than 10% • Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4) • Clearance level must be able to possess: None; clearance level must be able to obtain: None • Preferred or beneficial certifications include ISTQB Performance Testing Certification (CT-PT), AWS Certified Solutions Architect–Associate or DevOps Engineer, SAFe Practitioner (SPC/SSM), and Performance Engineering Certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages • 401K with company match • Competitive pay • Paid time off • Full-flex work week • Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • Vacation, sick, and personal time • Paid holidays • Paid parental leave • Military leave • Bereavement leave • Jury duty leave • 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees • 10 paid holidays per year • Paid Family Leave of up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance • AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities • Internal mobility team • Award-winning culture of innovation • Military-friendly workplace