Performance Tester

General Dynamics

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Work type
Remote
Location
Silver Spring, MD
Salary
$119,000–$161,000 / yr
Posted
16 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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This role $140k
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This role pays less than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $137,276–$214,562 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

General Dynamics currently has 1082 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Performance Tester within the Federal Services System Support and Oversight program, you will support Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services activities by ensuring the scalability, reliability, and responsiveness of Salesforce applications. You will be responsible for planning, designing, executing, and analyzing performance tests across multiple Salesforce environments, including Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, APIs, and custom components. Your daily work involves building test scripts using JMeter and LoadRunner to simulate user loads, while validating response times, throughput, and governor limits for Apex, SOQL queries, and LWC components. You will also evaluate integration performances involving AWS, Snowflake, and REST/SOAP protocols. The role requires expertise in Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, and GitHub. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize system performance and identify bottlenecks within complex infrastructure to ensure stability during high-traffic periods.

Skills

Salesforce Performance Testing JMeter LoadRunner Selenium WebDriver Cucumber REST SOAP GraphQL AWS Snowflake Jenkins GitHub CI/CD Apex SOQL LWC New Relic AppDynamics DynaTrace Splunk JIRA Agile Scrum

What you'll do

  • Develop performance test strategies specifically for Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud applications.
  • Build and execute performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
  • Simulate user loads for Salesforce interfaces, API integrations, and batch/asynchronous processes.
  • Validate response times, throughput, latency, and governor limits while documenting defects with detailed logs.
  • Analyze performance metrics for Apex, SOQL queries, flows, and REST/SOAP APIs.
  • Evaluate integration performance across external APIs and data fetches from AWS or Snowflake.
  • Identify and report system bottlenecks to help developers optimize code, configurations, and caching.
  • Validate scalability for high-traffic public portals and seasonal surges in enterprise releases.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree required.
  • 8+ years of performance testing experience and 4+ years of Salesforce performance testing experience.
  • Experience in QA test management on Salesforce, including functional/non-functional testing and automation.
  • Proficiency with tools such as LoadRunner, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, and GitHub.
  • Knowledge of API integration performance testing for REST, SOAP, and GraphQL.
  • Ability to obtain a CMS Public Trust (T4) clearance.
  • Must have lived in the United States at least three out of the last five years.
  • Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant certification (preferred); experience with Snowflake or CI/CD pipelines (preferred).

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