Software Quality Engineer Sr

Amerihealth Caritas•,

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Software Quality Engineer Senior (Performance) is responsible for Performance testing initiatives across enterprise applications, APIs, Microservices and Cloud platforms. This role involves designing and executing performance tests, identifying bottlenecks, analyzing system behavior under load, and collaborating with development, infrastructure, and architecture teams to improve application scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Apache JMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, Groovy/Python scripting, performance analysis, and monitoring solutions. This is a 100% Remote position but you must live in EST in CST times zones

Requirements

BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
At least seven (7)+ years of experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering
At least five (5)+ years of hands-on experience with JMeter
Experience building Grafana dashboards and managing InfluxDB environments
Strong understanding of web protocols, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
Experience analyzing JVM, database, and infrastructure performance metrics
Performance Engineering
Root Cause Analysis
Problem Solving
Automation Mindset
Capacity Planning
Stakeholder Communication
Cross-functional Collaboration

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as Automation Senior in Healthcare Industry strongly preferred
BlazeMeter (preferred)
LoadRunner (nice to have)
Splunk (preferred)

Responsibilities

Understand nonfunctional requirements to assess the performance requirements
Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests
Create and maintain reusable JMeter test scripts and frameworks
Analyze application performance against SLAs, KPIs, and business requirements
Develop workload models and realistic test scenarios based on production usage patterns
Automate performance testing activities within CI/CD pipelines
Configure and maintain performance monitoring dashboards using Grafana
Collect, store, and analyze test metrics using InfluxDB
Monitor application, infrastructure, and database performance during test execution
Correlate application logs, server metrics, and response times to identify root causes
Generate performance reports with actionable recommendations
Develop reusable JMeter based test scripts & scenarios
Develop automation utilities and performance test frameworks using Groovy / Python
Implement dynamic data handling, parameterization, and correlation techniques
Automate result collection, trend analysis, and reporting processes
Identify application bottlenecks across all tiers of applications including Web, API, Database
Work with development and infrastructure teams to tune App, Web, DB, network servers
Support capacity planning and scalability assessments
Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD & Jenkins
Maintain version control for performance scripts and test assets