Software Quality Engineer Senior – Performance

AmeriHealth Caritas is a mission-driven health care organization that delivers integrated managed care, pharmacy, behavioral health, and administrative services to build healthier communities. The Senior Software Quality Engineer (Performance) will lead performance testing across enterprise applications, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms, while identifying bottlenecks and improving scalability and reliability. The role also involves developing JMeter-based automation, configuring monitoring dashboards, analyzing performance data, and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.

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

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 Testing Tools: Apache JMeter (Expert), BlazeMeter (preferred), LoadRunner (nice to have)
• • Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Splunk (preferred)
• • Scripting & Programming: JMeter, Groovy, Java, Python, Bash/Shell scripting, PowerShell
• • Performance Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Problem Solving, Automation Mindset
• • Capacity Planning, Stakeholder Communication, Cross-functional Collaboration
• • Prior experience as Automation Senior in Healthcare Industry strongly preferred