Performance & Resilience Test Engineer (Journeyman) at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Chicago, IL

Performance & Resilience Test Engineer (Journeyman) at Careers Decisionpointcorp in Chicago, IL. Full-time. Apply with swipeandhired.

Performance & Resilience Test Engineer (Journeyman)

ID

2026-4269

Job Locations

US-IL-Chicago

Category

Information Technology

Type

Regular Full-Time

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Performance & Resilience Test Engineer to evaluate the scalability, stability, responsiveness, failover behavior, and recovery capabilities of mission-critical software supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role develops regression, API, integration, load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests; creates realistic workload models; and produces reproducible evidence of system behavior under normal, peak, degraded, and recovery conditions.
The Performance & Resilience Test Engineer works with architects, software developers, API and integration engineers, infrastructure and cloud teams, database specialists, cybersecurity personnel, CI/CD engineers, operations teams, and Government stakeholders. The position identifies performance bottlenecks, validates failover and recovery procedures, and provides evidence-based recommendations supporting release readiness, capacity planning, and operational resilience.
This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Performance & Resilience Test Engineer will:

• Develop and maintain performance, load, stress, spike, endurance, volume, scalability, failover, and recovery tests.

• Build automated regression, API, and integration tests supporting repeatable performance and resilience validation.

• Analyze mission workflows, usage patterns, transaction volumes, concurrency, data characteristics, interfaces, and operational objectives.

• Develop workload models that represent normal operations, peak demand, surge conditions, degraded environments, and recovery scenarios.

• Define test objectives, performance baselines, service thresholds, acceptance criteria, and measurable expected results.

• Develop test plans, scenarios, scripts, data, configurations, and execution schedules.

• Prepare representative test data for functional, high-volume, boundary, exception, failover, and recovery scenarios.

• Maintain repeatable processes for test-data creation, setup, refresh, reset, reconciliation, and cleanup.

• Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, performance, or other Government-approved environments.

• Automate test execution through approved CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.

• Produce reproducible test results, logs, reports, metrics, graphs, and objective evidence.

• Measure and analyze response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, error rates, resource utilization, saturation, queue depth, and transaction completion.

• Establish performance baselines and compare results across builds, releases, configurations, environments, and infrastructure changes.

• Identify application, database, interface, network, cloud, infrastructure, configuration, or external-service bottlenecks.

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