QA Automation+ Performance testing Engineer - Purple Drive Technologies - Chicago, IL
Purple Drive Technologies
Job Description:
• Hands on experience in software test automation and performance engineering (or equivalent), covering AWS and on-perm platforms.
• Strong coding skills in one or more: Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with testing tools: Cypress, Selenium, JMeter, Blazemeter or equivalent tools
• Working proficiency with development toolsets and CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code
• Familiarity with distributed services, microservices architecture in AWS; Kubernetes; databases such as Oracle and MongoDB
• Experience with observability tooling and metrics: Dynatrace, Geneos, Splunk, Grafana; ability to interpret system/resource metrics and application telemetry.
• Familiar with Agile Methodology; ability to work independently with strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills; ability to influence cross-functional teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Experience in financial services; domain knowledge in Receivables or Lockbox
• Performance tuning across JVM/.NET, databases, and front-end assets
• Experience leveraging GenAl to accelerate test creation, analysis, or documentation. Define and own the automation strategy and roadmap; design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks; implement reliable automated tests for UI, API, microservices, and data workflows.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD; establish quality gates, automated reporting, and release readiness criteria.
• Lead test strategy and coverage for functional and non-functional requirements; set and enforce standards for test data management and environment readiness to ensure deterministic, reproducible runs.
• Instrument systems and build observability dashboards to capture SLIs/SLOs, latency, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization;
• integrate these signals with test reports.
• Own the performance testing lifecycle end-to-end: requirements, workload modeling, environment setup, and