Sutherland
Sutherland
Sutherland helps organizations modernize how they operate and serve their customers through digital transformation and business process outsourcing. Its work combines artificial intelligence, automation, cloud engineering, digital customer experience, and enterprise technology solutions, with applications across sectors including healthcare, insurance, travel, banking, and telecommunications. The company’s teams focus on improving critical business processes, creating more responsive customer interactions, and helping clients adapt through technology-enabled operations. For job seekers, Sutherland offers a range of career paths connected to digital services, customer experience, technology delivery, and intelligent automation.

Senior QA Performance Testing Tech Lead

Lead performance engineering for Sutherland’s web applications, BI workloads, and ETL systems. Automate testing with JMeter, Playwright, Python, and Azure DevOps.

Description

  • Plan, run, and interpret performance tests for web applications, BI reports and dashboards, and ETL data models
  • Apply JMeter to web application load, stress, soak, and spike testing
  • Create tailored Playwright and Python scripts for BI and ETL performance validation
  • Translate service-level agreements into measurable performance benchmarks
  • Evaluate ETL pipelines and data models across job duration, data volume, transformation throughput, and downstream reporting effects
  • Measure BI performance through report and dashboard load times, query responsiveness, concurrent-user capacity, and refresh or batch windows
  • Embed performance tests in Azure DevOps pipelines with automated quality gates, reporting, and release-readiness validation
  • Diagnose bottlenecks, communicate findings clearly, and work with development, QA, data, and operations teams
  • Take part in SAFe events such as PI Planning, Sprint Planning, System Demo, and Inspect & Adapt
  • Meet iteration and program increment objectives
  • Use GitHub Copilot and MCP when available to speed up scripting, analysis, and documentation

Requirements

  • Four to eight years of performance engineering or test automation experience, with a strong focus on performance
  • Advanced JMeter skills covering test plans, correlation, parameterization, assertions, distributed execution, and results analysis
  • Experience using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript and Python for client-side, BI, and ETL performance scripting
  • Background in performance testing web applications, BI platforms, and ETL or data models
  • Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, test execution, and reporting
  • Working knowledge of SAFe and experience operating within Agile Release Trains
  • Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, data flows, and performance measures such as latency, throughput, error rate, concurrency, and job duration
  • Practical GitHub Copilot experience; MCP familiarity is advantageous
  • Strong communication, root-cause analysis, and rapid learning skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable level of experience
  • Additional ETL or data pipeline experience is preferred
  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, or comparable BI tools is preferred
  • Experience with k6, Grafana, Datadog, Application Insights, or other observability platforms is preferred
  • Cloud experience is preferred, particularly with Azure

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement
  • Full-time employment

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