Senior Performance Engineer - Load Testing & System Optimization (Remote)
 Cognizant North America | |
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
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 United States, Missouri, St. Louis | |
 May 12, 2025 | |
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This is a remote position open to any qualified applicant in the United States. Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for a "Senior Performance Engineer - Load Testing & System Optimization (Remote)" to join in our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you! About Cognizant's QEA Practice: We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients. We bring the industry leading vision and expertise to help with Quality Engineering transformation for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant! Senior Performance Engineer - Load Testing & System Optimization (Remote) Location: Saint Louis, MO - Remote allowed Required Skills Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Must have 10+ experience or more in Performance testing and engineering Should be an individual contributor, lead and own responsibility and able to handle project E2E. Should be good in NeoLoad / LoadRunner/JMeter (Scripting & execution), Dynatrace monitoring and root cause analysis. Preferable Web, Real browser & Citrix Protocols Code profiling JProfiler, Visual Studio or subsequent internal tools based on the technology Experience/Knowledge in Chaos Engineering & DR testing is preferrable Knowledge in Healthcare Domain and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) technology Load Testing Methodology in AWS Roles and Responsibilities Must have experience in Performance engineering such as Code Profiling, Database Query tuning / optimization and PODs scaling Expertise in troubleshooting and identifying performance bottlenecks, analyzing the root causes, code level analysis and recommending corrective actions to tune the applications. Expert in identifying performance bottlenecks at various layers like UI, App, DB, network, message queues etc. Strong hands-on experience in various Application performance monitoring tools including AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk. Having experience in healthcare domain having value-adds Experience in performance tuning of microservices pods on Kubernetes platform. Experience in handling cloud applications hosted in AWS. Experience in running tests from CICD pipelines such as Jenkins/Gitlab Create test scripts, test scenarios, implement load tests, endurance tests, scalability tests using NeoLoad/LoadRunner/JMeter Implement load scenarios for specified work models and monitor system and application behavior to find potential bottlenecks. Having development experience to create utilities/tools, enhancing existing frameworks preferred Having experience in AI/ML/LLM are added advantages Salary and Other Compensation: Applications will be accepted until 06/02/2025. The annual salary for this position is between [$83,250 - $132,000] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans. Work Authorization Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.) Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off 401(k) plan and contributions Long-term/Short-term Disability Paid Parental Leave Employee Stock Purchase Plan Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. #LI-MS6 | |