Senior Performance Engineer – JMeter, JavaScript

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Maximus

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10,000+ employees

🏛️ Government

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

💰 $7.9M Post-IPO Equity - Maximus on 2010-12

Government • Healthcare • Consulting

Maximus is a public-sector services firm that partners with government agencies to modernize and operate programs across health, human services, defense, national security, and civilian agencies. The company combines technology (AI, analytics, cloud, cybersecurity), omnichannel contact center and eligibility/enrollment systems, clinical and Medicaid enterprise services, and consulting and program-delivery capabilities to improve citizen experience and program outcomes. Backed by decades of government experience and scale, Maximus supports federal, state, and local clients with human-centered operational support and end-to-end digital modernization.

📋 Description

• Lead performance testing activities including planning, workload modeling, test design, scripting, execution, analysis, reporting, and stakeholder communication • Establish and validate non-functional requirements and performance service level objectives • Design and execute load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, and capacity testing scenarios • Develop realistic workload models based on business transactions, production usage patterns, and projected growth • Plan performance test environments, monitoring and observability requirements, test data strategies, and distributed load generation • Analyze performance metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring data across applications, databases, infrastructure, JVMs, containers, and cloud platforms • Identify bottlenecks and root causes and recommend corrective actions • Establish performance baselines and identify regressions across releases • Design, develop, and maintain performance testing frameworks, automation utilities, CI/CD integrations, and cloud-native testing capabilities • Support AWS services, Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, Helm deployments, and microservices architectures • Participate in architecture and design reviews to identify performance and scalability risks • Mentor engineers on performance engineering methodologies, tools, and best practices • Evaluate emerging performance engineering, observability, and AI-enabled testing solutions • Present performance findings, risks, and remediation recommendations to technical and business stakeholders • Lead software solution development, coding, unit testing, code reviews, integration, troubleshooting, defect remediation, and production-log analysis • Assist developers through guidance and training

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Additional years of relevant experience considered in lieu of degree • 5+ years of experience in performance testing and engineering for large-scale web, mobile, and digital applications, APIs, and microservices, including 2+ years in a technical lead role • Strong experience performance testing enterprise applications across REST, GraphQL, SOAP, HTTP/S, WebSockets, monolithic, microservices, and serverless architectures • Proficiency deploying, executing, and managing JMeter or comparable performance testing tools in cloud-hosted containerized environments such as Kubernetes on AWS • Skilled in building workload models from production usage data and producing performance reports • Experience designing, generating, and managing large-scale test data sets • Strong knowledge of Java, JVM tuning, thread analysis, memory management, and performance optimization • Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and supporting shift-left performance engineering • Working knowledge of relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases, including database performance tuning • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Amazon CloudWatch, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics • Understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes/container platforms, and modern web application infrastructure • Experience conducting performance, load, stress, scalability, endurance, and capacity testing • Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with Development, DevOps, Architecture, Product, and Infrastructure teams • Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive performance improvements • Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities • Strong leadership, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing capabilities • Excellent organizational and documentation skills • Ability to thrive in fast-paced Agile environments • Preferred: experience supporting healthcare, government, or regulated technology programs • Preferred: experience with AI-assisted test generation, analysis, and performance optimization tools • Preferred: experience contributing to architecture reviews and cloud modernization initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance coverage • Life and disability insurance • Retirement savings plan • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Short- and long-term incentives • Program-specific awards • Reasonable accommodations during the employment process