Performance Test Coordinator

Overview

This role requires a highly skilled and experienced Performance Test Coordinator to lead and manage performance testing efforts for a large suite of financial applications. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver, capable of designing and implementing performance testing strategies, coordinating with various teams, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. This is a senior-level role that demands a blend of technical expertise, project management skills, and leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance Testing Strategy & Execution:
  • Develop and propose a comprehensive performance testing process, including methodologies, tooling, and reporting.
  • Design and implement overhead, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry-standard tools (JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter) and potentially developed software.
  • Analyze performance results to identify bottlenecks and suggest optimizations.
  • Conduct various types of performance testing, including volume, soak, and response time tests.
  • Write and manage performance testing scripts.
• Coordination & Leadership:
  • Lead and coordinate performance testing efforts across multiple scrum teams and business units.
  • Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to document use cases and prioritize testing.
  • Facilitate communication between the performance testing team and development teams for issue remediation.
  • Train and guide the organization on performance testing best practices.
• Tooling & Monitoring:
  • Demonstrate expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and BlazeMeter.
  • Utilize SQL profiling tools (e.g., SQL Profiler) for database performance analysis.
  • Experience with monitoring tools like AppDynamics is highly desirable.
  • Build or configure tools to conduct performance tests.
• Analysis & Reporting:
  • Quantify performance issues and provide clear, actionable reports.
  • Analyze performance results to identify bottlenecks and suggest optimizations.
• Project Management & Communication:
  • Develop and manage performance testing plans and timelines.
  • Demonstrate strong project management skills, organization, and communication abilities.
  • Articulate performance related concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Environment:
  • Work within large UNIX systems environment, with Windows platform and/or Linux experience.
  • Experience with Oracle cluster technology, partitioning configuration, slanted towards performance, tuning and scalability.
  • Systems Administrator experience with UNIX / SOLARIS / LINUX OS relative to SHELL scripting, VMSTAT, SAR and Statspack.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Significant experience (beyond 3-5 years, ideally senior-level) in performance testing coordination and execution.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing performance testing strategies.
• Strong understanding of performance testing methodologies and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter).
• Experience with SQL profiling and database performance tuning.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., AppDynamics).
• Excellent project management, leadership, and communication skills.
• Experience in a financial services environment, particularly with retirement financial applications, is highly desirable.
• Excellent design/architecture skills for transactional, messaging, or batch applications.
• Good working knowledge of operating systems, databases and programming languages (both procedural and object).

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $49.92 to $55.47/Hourly (W2). Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.