Performance Testing Lead

Capio Group is looking for an experienced Performance Testing Lead!

Full-time employee - Sacramento
Salary: $117,000 - $122,000

Capio Group is a California-based Information Technology Consulting firm serving the public sector since 2010. We assist the Government in delivering large, complex systems and solutions. Capio Group is a small, but quickly growing firm that mixes good ideas, with great people, to achieve extraordinary results for our clients. We offer the salary and benefits of the bigger companies, with the added bonus of a flexible workplace and a great work-life balance.

Scope of Work:

Capio Group is looking for an experienced Performance Testing Lead to provide QA/QC services to support teams for enterprise applications, covering end to end test planning, execution, automation, performance engineering, environment/test data coordination, and defect management. Activities will be conducted under client direction using approved tools (e.g., Azure DevOps/Jira/ALM/UFT/LoadRunner Enterprise), with automation on UFT (VBScript), Selenium, and/or Katalon integrated to CI/CD. Performance Testing Lead shall provide per cycle test summary reports, coverage dashboards, and defect metrics (density, leakage, aging) to the client.

The Performance Testing Lead will be responsible for services including but not limited to:

• Validation of system scalability, reliability, and performance under expected and peak workloads.
• Activities will include but not limited to: Performance test planning and workload modeling, Load, stress, endurance, and spike testing, Performance script development, Monitoring system performance metrics, Bottleneck identification and root cause analysis, Performance reporting and tuning recommendations
• Review non-functional requirements, system architecture documentation, and expected system usage volumes to develop performance testing strategies.
• Develop performance test scenarios and workload models representing expected user behavior and transaction volumes.
• Develop and configure performance test scripts using client approved performance testing tools.
• Monitor system performance metrics including response time, throughput, system resource utilization, and transaction success rates.
• Analyze performance testing results to identify system bottlenecks and provide recommendations to improve system performance.
• Support performance test result reviews and provide performance analysis reports to project stakeholders.

Mandatory Experience:

1. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming.
2. Within the last ten (10) years, at least four (4) years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming must be in a lead Capacity.
3. Must possess a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request.
4. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience performing performance testing or performance engineering for *large scale enterprise systems as defined.
   “Large Scale Enterprise System” is defined as an application or integrated system landscape that meets all of the following:
   1. Supports at least 2,500 concurrent users during peak periods, or at least 500,000 registered users and
   2. Processes at least 500,000 transactions or claims per year, or equivalent record/transaction volume across batch and online channels and
   3. Includes a multi-tier architecture spanning at least three of: web/portal, API/services layer, batch processing, and/or mainframe integrations or modern cloud-native services.
5. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience in a lead role, managing performance testing teams, including planning, execution, and reporting of performance test cycles.
6. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end performance test strategies, including workload modeling, scripting, execution, and reporting.
7. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience executing load, stress, endurance, and spike testing, including validation against defined performance SLAs (response time, throughput, error rate).
8. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience translating non-functional requirements into measurable performance test scenarios, including volumetric models and workload distribution.
9. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of hands-on experience using performance testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter or equivalent and performance monitoring tools like Elastic, Dynatrace, or equivalent.
10. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience testing APIs (REST/SOAP), validating latency, throughput, and error handling.
11. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience using test management and defect tracking tools like Micro Focus ALM, Azure DevOps, Jira.
12. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience using SQL or similar technologies for test data preparation and validation.
13. Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of four (4) years of experience conducting bottleneck analysis and providing documented tuning recommendations based on performance results.
14. Must be able to provide a client/user end reference contact information for each applicable project meeting the requirements upon request in the qualification form. In addition, you must be able to submit completed reference forms when requested. Each reference form must be signed by the referenced individual. The reference contact must be a representative of the company for which the project was developed and must have served in a management or supervisory role.

1. At least ten (10) years of cumulative experience performing performance testing or performance engineering for *large scale enterprise systems as defined.
   “Large Scale Enterprise System” is defined as an application or integrated system landscape that meets all of the following:
   1. Supports at least 2,500 concurrent users during peak periods, or at least 500,000 registered users and
   2. Processes at least 500,000 transactions or claims per year, or equivalent record/transaction volume across batch and online channels and
   3. Includes a multi-tier architecture spanning at least three of: web/portal, API/services layer, batch processing, and/or mainframe integrations or modern cloud-native services.
2. Within the last ten (10) years, atleast four (4) years of cumulative experience leading enterprise-scale performance programs, including demonstrated improvements in SLA compliance or throughput optimization.
3. Within the last ten (10) years, atleast five (5) years of experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, Jenkins with automated pass/fail gates.
4. Within the last ten (10) years, atleast three (3) years of experience performance testing cloud-based or SaaS systems, including autoscaling and distributed load strategies.
5. Within the last ten (10) years, atleast one (1) year experience supporting large scale benefit systems (eg: Unemployment Insurane or Disability Insurance) meeting defined large scale enterprise system criteria.
6. Possesses one or more of the below certifications: A copy of the certification must be provided upon request.
   - ISTQB Certified Tester Performance Testing (CT-PT)
   - Open Text LoadRunner Professional Certification
7. Possession of a Master's degree in a Business Administration, IT or Engineering field. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request.