QA Performance Engineer

Company Overview:
NationsBenefits is the leading provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and membernengagement solutions that partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions designed to drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and delight members. Our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, payments platform, and member engagement solutions help health plans deliver high-quality benefit to their members, addressing social determinants of health and improving member health outcomes and satisfaction. With a compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary
technology systems, and premier service delivery model, we enable our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.

We offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associatesto do their part in delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. It’s howwe’re transforming the healthcare industry for the better. We provide career advancement opportunities within the organization with multiple locations in Florida, California,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and India.

You might also like to know that NationsBenefits is also recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America. We’re proud of how far we’ve come, and a career with us alsogives you growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and spike tests using Apache JMeter.

· Analyze application performance and identify bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers.

· Define performance testing strategies, workload models, and acceptance criteria based on business and non-functional requirements.

· Create reusable and maintainable JMeter test scripts for web applications, REST APIs, and microservices.

· Monitor application performance using APM and infrastructure monitoring tools during test execution.

· Analyze test results and prepare detailed performance reports with observations, root cause analysis, and recommendations.

· Collaborate with developers, DevOps, database administrators, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues.

· Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous performance testing.

· Validate system scalability, stability, and reliability under expected and peak workloads.

· Participate in performance tuning discussions and recommend improvements to application architecture and infrastructure.

· Maintain performance testing documentation, scripts, and test data.

Required Skills

· 4–6 years of experience in performance testing and engineering.

· Strong hands-on experience with Apache JMeter.

· Experience designing and executing load, stress, endurance (soak), and spike tests.

· Experience testing REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

· Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, and API performance testing.

· Experience analyzing server-side metrics such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, network utilization, and thread usage.

· Knowledge of SQL for database validation and performance analysis.

· Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana, or Prometheus.

· Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

· Strong scripting knowledge for test parameterization, correlation, and custom logic using Groovy or BeanShell in JMeter.

· Experience with Git and version control.

· Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

· Excellent communication and collaboration skills.