The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) works to build on strengths of families and communities to keep children and vulnerable adults safe, so they thrive. We do this through investigations, services, and referrals. This position functions as a technical team member in the IT Application Development team and reports to AppDev Test Manager. This position coordinates the activities of performance testing, in support of release activities. This includes but is not limited to application testing and setup and support regular performance test. This role will require a proactive individual whose aim is to find the system limitations through a defined, efficient, and repeatable process to enhance the performance, capacity and resilience of the applications and their infrastructure. This individual must have a technical background and understand the levers that impact the performance of application as well as being able to interpret and analyze performance metrics across the solution stack (i.e. network, database, application servers, etc.).This position works closely with stake holders from Project Managers, Product Development, and QA Teams to coordinate the on-time and quality release of software to Production. The Performance Test Lead is expected to completely own the test cycles, including verification, testing, documentation, and communications. They will be agile, collaborative, and focused with an extremely deep technical understanding of the software and will be committed to delivering a quality product. This position works with minimal supervision and considerable latitude for use of initiative and independent judgment.