Performance & Chaos Tester Job at Turnberry Solutions in Maryland Heights

Performance & Chaos Tester at Turnberry Solutions

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Maryland Heights, MO – 3-4 days onsite per week

Overview

Every consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group that brings together consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. The Performance & Chaos Tester will join the Digital Modernization practice, managing technology and strategy to deliver exceptional digital experiences and empower organizations to thrive in today’s digital market.

Responsibilities

• Performance Testing
  • Design and execute load, stress, soak, and scalability tests for distributed cloud services
  • Benchmark APIs, microservices, and data pipelines using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, k6, or equivalent
  • Analyze performance bottlenecks and collaborate with engineering teams on tuning, optimization, and capacity planning
  • Build automated performance test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines
  • Validate SLIs/SLOs for latency, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization
• Chaos Engineering
  • Plan, run, and automate chaos experiments to validate system resiliency and fault tolerance
  • Use tools such as Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, or GCP-native disruption tooling
  • Inject failures including:
    • VM/pod termination
    • Network latency/packet loss
    • CPU/memory exhaustion
    • Dependency/API outage
    • Zonal or regional failover events
  • Create and maintain a resiliency testing playbook aligned with SRE best practices
  • Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering to improve fault tolerance and recovery strategies
• Cloud and Infrastructure
  • Build testing systems and environments in GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Cloud Run)
  • Leverage GCP tools such as Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting for SLO validation
  • Partner with engineering to ensure architecture supports chaos and performance testing requirements
• Observability and Reporting
  • Develop dashboards and automated reports for performance and resiliency KPIs
  • Document system behavior under load and during faults
  • Provide clear recommendations to improve reliability, scalability, and operational readiness

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years in Performance Testing, SRE, DevOps, or QA Engineering roles
• Hands‑on experience with GCP (compute, networking, IAM, observability)
• Strong background in performance testing tools: k6, Locust, Gatling, JMeter, etc.
• Experience with chaos engineering tools or frameworks:
  • Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, PowerfulSeal, Pumba
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (latency, scaling, failover, retry logic, circuit breakers)
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, or JS)
• Comfort testing microservices, Kubernetes workloads (GKE), and event‑driven architectures
• Solid understanding of monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building automated chaos experiments in CI/CD pipelines
• Previous work with service mesh fault injection (Istio, Linkerd)
• Familiarity with SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
• Experience with Terraform or GCP Deployment Manager for environment setup
• Exposure to incident management, DR testing, or high availability architectures

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $130,000 – $185,000. Pay is based on experience, education, certifications, and other factors.

Benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision), disability and group life insurance, HSA/FSAs, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off and parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Turnberry, inclusion is one of our core values. We are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in hiring and growing a diverse team. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better place. Turnberry is an equal‑employment‑opportunity employer, recruiting, employing, training, compensating, and promoting regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

Turnberry will provide reasonable accommodation with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please email turnberryhr@turnberrysolutions.com.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Quality Assurance

Industries

Business Consulting and Services

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