Performance Load Test Architect/Lead

**Job Title: Performance Load Test Architect/Lead** **Duration: 8\+ months** **Location: Middletown, PA (Remote Position w/ occasional travel)** **Note: \*** **The resource shall attend onsite meetings at one of the Commission Middletown PA locations for 1 week per month based on the schedule set by the client** **\*** **Job Description of Duties*** Define and own the overall performance engineering strategy for the Journi program. * Develop enterprise performance testing standards, governance, methodologies, and best practices. * Define workload models using historical production metrics and anticipated business growth. * Establish non\-functional requirements (NFRs), service level objectives (SLOs), service level agreements (SLAs), and performance acceptance criteria. * Lead performance planning activities for Solution Confirmation, PI Planning, SIT, UAT, Go\-Live, and Hypercare. * Review solution architecture to identify scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints early in the SDLC. * Provide technical leadership for capacity planning and infrastructure sizing recommendations. * Performance Engineering Leadership * Lead performance testing across: o SAP BRIM o SAP Convergent Mediation (CM) o SAP S/4HANA o SAP Datasphere o Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement o Middleware o REST/SOAP APIs o Batch processing o Event\-driven integrations o Customer web portal o Mobile applications o IVR and chatbot platforms * Define enterprise load profiles for concurrent users, transaction volumes, billing cycles, payment processing, toll transactions, financial processing, and customer service operations. * Review and approve performance test plans, scripts, workloads, and execution schedules developed by performance analysts. * Architecture, Monitoring \& Analysis * Define enterprise monitoring strategy across application, middleware, SAP, database, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. * Analyze application response times, throughput, resource utilization, JVM metrics, database performance, middleware queues, API latency, and infrastructure bottlenecks. * Lead root\-cause analysis with development, SAP, CRM, infrastructure, middleware, and vendor teams. * Recommend application tuning, database optimization, infrastructure scaling, and configuration improvements. * Validate system readiness for production deployment. * Tooling \& Automation * Lead implementation and administration of NeoLoad as the enterprise performance testing platform. * Define reusable scripting frameworks and standards. * Establish automated performance regression testing for major releases. * Develop performance dashboards and executive reporting. * Collaboration \& Leadership * Present performance status, risks, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership and project governance boards. * Fully document all created work associated with this position, including technical and functional desi