Senior Performance Test Architect2 (NeoLoad)
Senior Performance Test Architect (NeoLoad) 📍 Location: Middletown / Harrisburg, PA (Hybrid/Remote) 💼 Employment Type: Contract 🏢 Company: Willan Technologies About the Opportunity Willan Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Performance Test Architect (NeoLoad) to lead enterprise-wide performance engineering and load testing initiatives for a large-scale digital transformation program in Pennsylvania. This is a high-impact technical leadership opportunity for a seasoned professional with deep expertise in NeoLoad, SAP enterprise applications, performance testing architecture, capacity planning, and system scalability . The ideal candidate will bring a strategic approach to performance engineering, combining hands-on technical expertise with the ability to lead complex testing initiatives across integrated enterprise platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Performance Engineering Strategy & Architecture Define and lead enterprise performance engineering strategies, standards, governance, and best practices. Architect scalable performance testing solutions for complex enterprise environments. Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), SLAs, and performance acceptance criteria. Develop realistic workload models using production metrics, transaction volumes, and projected business growth. Identify architectural bottlenecks, scalability risks, and infrastructure limitations. Lead capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations. Enterprise Load Testing & Technical Leadership Lead performance testing initiatives across SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation, SAP Datasphere, and Dynamics CRM. Oversee performance validation for REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, batch processing, and event-driven integrations. Direct load, stress, spike, endurance, and failover testing. Review and approve performance test strategies, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules. Guide performance testing activities throughout SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare. Mentor performance analysts and promote engineering best practices. NeoLoad Implementation & Automation Lead the implementation, configuration, and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform. Develop reusable performance testing frameworks and scripting standards. Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases. Create performance dashboards, reporting frameworks, and actionable performance insights. Performance Monitoring & Optimization Define monitoring strategies across SAP, CRM, databases, middleware, cloud, and infrastructure environments. Analyze response times, throughput, API latency, JVM metrics, database performance, and resource utilization. Lead root-cause analysis and performance troubleshooting with cross-functional technical teams. Recommend application tuning, database optimization, and infrastructure scaling improvements. Assess system readiness for production deployment. Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance Collaborate with solution architects, developers, SAP specialists, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders. Present performance findings, risks, recommendations, and mitigation strategies to senior leadership. Produce comprehensive technical documentation, test plans, performance reports, and architecture diagrams. Support enterprise planning, solution confirmation, and production readiness activities.
Required Qualifications
Experience 12+ years of overall IT experience. 8+ years of enterprise performance engineering and load testing experience. 5+ years leading enterprise performance testing initiatives. Expert-level hands-on experience with NeoLoad . Proven experience designing performance testing architectures for large-scale enterprise applications. Technical Expertise Strong experience with SAP BRIM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Convergent Mediation (CM), and SAP Datasphere. Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM or comparable enterprise CRM platforms. Advanced knowledge of API performance testing, middleware, and enterprise integrations. Expertise in production workload modeling and capacity planning. Strong understanding of scalability architecture and cloud/hybrid infrastructure performance. Experience conducting stress, endurance, spike, and failover testing. Proficiency in performance monitoring, diagnostics, bottleneck analysis, and optimization. Experience optimizing batch processing and high-volume enterprise transactions. Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
NeoLoad certification. AWS or Microsoft Azure certification. Experience with large-scale SAP transformation programs. Experience supporting high-volume billing, payment processing, or transactional systems. Strong communication, technical leadership, and executive reporting capabilities. Work Location & Onsite Requirements 📍 Primary Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania Remote work is permitted until further notice, with mandatory onsite attendance as scheduled. Onsite presence is required approximately one week per month at the client's Middletown, PA facilities. Additional onsite participation may be required for planning sessions, architecture workshops, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, and Hypercare. Post-go-live support may require additional onsite assignments. Candidates must reside within the continental United States . Strong preference will be given to candidates residing in Harrisburg, Middletown, or surrounding Pennsylvania communities who can reliably meet onsite requirements. Candidates must successfully complete required background checks.