Performance & Resilience Test Engineer (Journeyman)
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.2 years ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated performance, load, stress, spike, endurance, volume, scalability, failover, recovery, regression, API, and integration tests.
- Create workload models, test plans, scenarios, scripts, configurations, schedules, and representative test data for normal, peak, degraded, and recovery conditions.
- Execute tests across approved development, integration, test, staging, performance, and government environments, including approved CI/CD pipelines.
- Measure response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, error rates, resource utilization, saturation, queue depth, and transaction completion.
- Analyze bottlenecks and correlate test results with application logs, infrastructure metrics, traces, events, and monitoring data.
- Validate failover, disaster recovery, continuity, restoration, recovery sequencing, data consistency, dependency restoration, and post-recovery functionality.
- Document defects, resilience gaps, capacity risks, recovery failures, residual risks, and release impacts, and support root-cause analysis and correction verification.
- Coordinate with technical, operations, CI/CD, and government stakeholders on scalability, capacity, observability, release readiness, and operational validation.
- Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, data, and documentation in approved version-control repositories and participate in Agile delivery activities.
Requirements
- Active Secret clearance or higher is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent qualification permitted by the applicable labor category.
- At least six years of relevant professional experience is required.
- Experience designing and executing load and performance tests, developing workload models, analyzing bottlenecks, planning or executing failover tests, and validating system or data recovery.
- Ability to build or maintain regression, API, integration, and automated test coverage; prepare test data; produce repeatable execution and reproducible results; and define measurable baselines, thresholds, acceptance criteria, and expected results.
- Ability to correlate results with logs, metrics, traces, events, and observability data and document performance, resilience, capacity, recovery, and release issues.
- CompTIA Security+ CE or another government-approved certification satisfying IAT Level II and applicable DoD 8140 requirements when required for assigned duties.
- Preferred qualifications include performance-testing, software-testing, cloud, or site-reliability certification; federal or DoD program experience; and experience with mission-critical, regulated, high-volume, or high-availability systems.
- Preferred experience includes performance-testing tools, test automation languages, APIs, web services, event-driven systems, message brokers, databases, cloud-native services, observability platforms, AWS or Azure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, disaster recovery, resilience testing, fault injection, and testing or collaboration tools.
Benefits
- Remote position, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
- Applicants acknowledge and consent to having their resumes included in an active competitive government contract bid.
- The position supports federal and government stakeholders and requires an active Secret clearance or higher.
Tech Stack
Apache JMeterAWSAzureC#GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunkTypeScript
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About DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise mobility and edge technology integration for large organizations, combining its IntelliTrack asset and inventory platform with managed services such as device lifecycle management, RFID, and help desk support. The company sells hardware, software, and implementation/support services to enterprises in supply chain, retail, and government. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, it operates across the U.S. and Canada and is privately held.