Performance Engineering, Senior QA Manager

McKesson Corporation

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Work type
Remote
Location
Irving, TXAtlanta, GALas Colinas, TX
Salary
$121,500–$202,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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About McKesson Corporation

McKesson Corporation is a premier American healthcare services company that distributes pharmaceuticals, medical-surgical supplies, and provides technology to the healthcare industry.

McKesson Corporation currently has 143 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Performance Engineering, Senior QA Manager

The Performance Engineering - Sr. QA Manager will lead a Performance Engineering Center of Excellence to oversee QA delivery for high-transaction healthcare platforms. This technical leader will improve the reliability and scalability of EMR/EHR systems by defining performance standards, building realistic workload models, and diagnosing complex bottlenecks. Daily responsibilities include executing load, stress, and capacity testing, establishing quality metrics, and guiding automation strategies. The role requires hands-on expertise with JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, or Gatling, alongside programming skills in Java, Groovy, or Python. Candidates must navigate modern distributed architectures including microservices, APIs, and cloud-native platforms using tools like Jenkins, Dynatrace, and Selenium. The position solves critical performance challenges within clinical transaction patterns, ensuring system stability across JVM internals, databases, and network layers for mission-critical healthcare products.

What you'll do

  • Lead the Performance Engineering Center of Excellence by defining standards, tooling strategies, and governance practices.
  • Design realistic workload models, performance baselines, and SLAs using production metrics and clinical transaction patterns.
  • Plan and execute load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing for high-volume healthcare workflows.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across APIs, databases, JVM, network, and cloud infrastructure layers.
  • Establish and track quality metrics for scalability, reliability, security, and release confidence across product portfolios.
  • Lead release readiness reviews and provide go/no-go recommendations based on test evidence and risk communication.
  • Improve QA productivity by reducing test cycle times, increasing defect detection efficiency, and stabilizing environments.
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders to influence architectural decisions with data-driven performance insights.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of progressive Quality Engineering and/or Performance Engineering experience.
  • 4+ years of formal people management or engineering leadership experience managing teams of five or more.
  • Hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, Gatling, NeoLoad, or equivalent tools for advanced scripting and workload modeling.
  • Ability to program and script in Java, Groovy, Python, or equivalent languages to build test scripts and utilities.
  • Strong working knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, containers, Java Spring Boot, and React-based frontends.
  • Experience integrating performance validation into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
  • Practical experience with Dynatrace or comparable APM tools for distributed tracing, monitoring, and performance analysis.
  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship.

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