Cognizant

Senior Performance Testing Engineer - Manager

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19 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define performance testing scope and strategies by analyzing application architecture and intake requests.
  • Lead the end-to-end Performance Development Lifecycle using JMeter to build complex scripts, custom stubs, and solution accelerators.
  • Perform root-cause analysis, monitor databases for slow queries, and recommend architecture and performance tuning improvements.
  • Build and configure observability dashboards using Datadog, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch.
  • Validate and optimize performance across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/POD environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ensure scalability and reliability for Sterling OMS, inventory management, and end-to-end retail order workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong performance engineering experience with architecture design recommendations and performance tuning solutions.
  • Ability to analyze application architecture, identify performance evaluation targets, assess application impact, and define testing scope.
  • Hands-on expertise with JMeter, including script, custom stub, and solution accelerator development across the Performance Development Lifecycle.
  • Experience with root-cause analysis, performance defect resolution, monitoring, and observability dashboard setup.
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/POD environments, and CI/CD setup.
  • Ability to monitor databases, identify performance-impacting queries, and provide tuning recommendations.
  • Retail Order Management Systems, inventory management, Sterling OMS, Locust, and K6 knowledge are advantageous.

Benefits

  • Hybrid position requiring three days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Vancouver, BC.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual performance-based bonus.
  • Benefits supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, along with wellbeing programs.

Tech Stack

Apache JMeterDatadogKubernetesSplunk

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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