{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"46f648edf1a239174c8ba9d8","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/46f648edf1a239174c8ba9d8","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/46f648edf1a239174c8ba9d8","title":"Java QA Automation Engineer","description":"Job Title: Performance Test Engineer\nLocation: Chicago, IL\nDuration: Travel - 12 months\nPay Range: $70.45 - $75.00 (W2)\nJob ID: 371286\nAbout OpenKyber\nOpenKyber is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, OpenKyber has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.\nJob Description\nWe are seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to join our Automation/Performance Engineering team. In this role, you will own the performance engineering strategy and execution for Receivables, partnering with Application Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to define non-functional requirements, build scalable performance test frameworks, and drive actionable improvements across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and analyzing performance tests, instrumenting systems for observability, and translating results into performance tuning and release decisions.\nDefine and own the performance engineering strategy and roadmap; design, build, and maintain robust performance test frameworks for UI, API, microservices, and data workflows.\nLead the end-to-end performance testing lifecycle: requirements gathering, workload modeling, environment setup, execution (load, stress, endurance), and results analysis.\nInstrument systems and develop observability dashboards to capture SLIs/SLOs, latency, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization; integrate these metrics with performance test reports.\nAnalyze performance test results to identify bottlenecks and root causes across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers; drive performance tuning and architectural improvements with partner teams.\nIntegrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines; establish automated reporting, quality gates, and release readiness criteria based on performance benchmarks.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to define non-functional requirements and ensure performance goals are met throughout the development lifecycle.\nProduce clear documentation, dashboards, and release readiness reports; communicate performance findings and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skills\n5+ years in performance engineering and software test automation, covering AWS and on-prem platforms.\nStrong coding skills in one or more: Java, JavaScript, Groovy, TypeScript, Python.\nHands-on experience with performance testing and automation tools, including JMeter, BlazeMeter, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Cucumber.\nWorking proficiency with development toolsets and CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code.\nFamiliarity with distributed services, microservices architecture in AWS; Kubernetes; databases such as Oracle and MongoDB.\nExperience with observability tooling and metrics: Dynatrace, Geneos, Splunk, Grafana; ability to interpret system/resource metrics and application telemetry.\nFamiliar with Agile Methodology; ability to work independently with strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills; ability to influence cross-functional teams.\nPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills\nExperience in financial services; domain knowledge in Receivables or Lockbox\nPerformance tuning across JVM/.NET, databases, and front-end assets\nExperience leveraging GenAI to accelerate test creation, analysis, or documentation\nAbout Our Commitment\nOpenKyber is an equal opportunity employer. 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Founded in 1998, OpenKyber has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.\nJob Description\nWe are seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to join our Automation/Performance Engineering team. In this role, you will own the performance engineering strategy and execution for Receivables, partnering with Application Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to define non-functional requirements, build scalable performance test frameworks, and drive actionable improvements across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers. 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