Lead Load Testing Engineer

Requisition ID:  21438 

Remote Work Available: Yes 

Job Title: Lead Load Testing Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Reports to: SR Manager of IT QA & Automation

Location: Remote

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Lead Load Testing Engineer owns the performance testing strategy and leads the design, execution, and continuous improvement of load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity testing across customer-facing and enterprise platforms. This hands-on leadership role translates business demand, service-level objectives, and production usage patterns into realistic workloads; identifies bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers; and provides evidence-based release and capacity recommendations. The role partners with engineering, architecture, DevOps, product, and operations teams while coaching performance engineers and embedding performance validation into the delivery lifecycle.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strategy and governance: Define the enterprise performance engineering strategy, standards, tooling roadmap, nonfunctional test approach, entry and exit criteria, and risk-based coverage model.
• Workload modeling: Convert forecasts, analytics, architecture, and production traffic patterns into representative user journeys, arrival rates, data volumes, concurrency profiles, and peak-event scenarios.
• Test engineering: Design, code, review, and maintain reusable performance test frameworks and scripts for web, mobile backend, API, microservices, messaging, batch, database, and integrated workflows.
• Test execution: Plan and lead baseline, load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, failover, and capacity tests in stable, production-like environments.
• Observability and analysis: Correlate response time, throughput, error rate, saturation, resource utilization, logs, traces, database behavior, and infrastructure metrics to isolate constraints.
• Root cause and optimization: Facilitate technical investigations across application code, JVM or runtime, network, database, cache, messaging, cloud, and container layers; validate improvements through controlled retesting.
• Release readiness: Establish performance baselines, thresholds, service-level objectives, and pass/fail criteria; deliver clear go/no-go recommendations with residual risks and mitigations.
• Continuous testing: Integrate targeted performance checks and trend analysis into CI/CD pipelines, with actionable alerts for regressions.
• Capacity planning: Provide data-driven forecasts and recommendations for scaling, infrastructure sizing, peak readiness, and performance-related investment.
• Leadership: Prioritize team assignments, review technical work, mentor engineers, improve estimation and delivery practices, and build performance engineering capability across delivery teams.
• Stakeholder communication: Present findings, risks, tradeoffs, and remediation priorities to technical teams and senior leaders in concise business terms.
• Operational excellence: Maintain test assets, data, environment controls, dashboards, runbooks, and lessons learned while promoting repeatable and auditable practices.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

• Performance test strategy, roadmap, standards, and reusable templates.
• Workload models, test plans, test data requirements, and environment readiness assessments.
• Version-controlled scripts, utilities, pipelines, and execution schedules.
• Execution dashboards and status reporting covering scope, progress, blockers, and defects.
• Performance test reports with baselines, trends, bottlenecks, root-cause evidence, and prioritized recommendations.
• Release-readiness assessments and documented risk acceptance or remediation decisions.
• Capacity models and peak-event readiness plans.
• Team quality metrics, asset health reviews, and continuous-improvement backlog.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software quality, performance testing, or performance engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers or complex cross-team initiatives.
• Advanced hands-on experience with at least one modern load-testing platform such as k6, Apache JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, or a comparable language.
• Demonstrated experience testing APIs and distributed systems, including microservices, databases, caches, queues, and event-driven integrations.
• Experience with observability and analysis tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, or cloud-native monitoring services.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, Git, containers, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, test-data management, and production-like environment design.
• Ability to explain complex findings, quantify business risk, influence technical decisions, and lead troubleshooting across organizational boundaries.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience supporting high-volume eCommerce, retail, financial, telecom, healthcare, or other business-critical platforms.
• Experience with cloud cost-performance optimization, traffic replay, resilience testing, chaos engineering, service virtualization, or synthetic monitoring.
• Knowledge of SQL, database performance diagnostics, networking, Linux, JVM or managed-runtime tuning, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Relevant cloud, DevOps, testing, or performance engineering certifications.

SUCCESS MEASURES:

• Critical services have approved workload models, measurable performance objectives, and current baselines.
• Performance risks are identified earlier and resolved before production release.
• Test results are reproducible, traceable, and delivered within agreed timelines.
• Release recommendations are supported by clear evidence, ownership, and mitigation plans.
• Automated performance coverage and trend visibility increase across delivery pipelines.
• Capacity decisions and peak-readiness plans are driven by validated data.
• Team capability improves through coaching, standards adoption, and reusable engineering assets.

Please apply directly through our official careers site or authorized recruitment channels.  Using third-party application services may create issues with your applicant profile and lead to processing delays. 

Salary will be commensurate with experience.   A comprehensive benefits package including paid time off is offered with this position. 

Trulieve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.