Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities: A Seattle area health insurance company is looking for an experienced Performance Test Engineer with specific Mercury LoadRunner expertise. This contract individual will join a team of 10 other testers responsible for testing all the E-Business applications. The team is responsible for front end web application testing along with business logic and database testing. Creating test harnesses and automation testing is an important part of this team's responsibilities. The specific areas of the Performance Test Engineer are as follows: Use LoadRunner to execute ramp-up tests of web and XML virtual users, create peak-load tests and flat-run tests, identify bottleneck plateaus, work with development engineers and network operations staff to troubleshoot bottlenecks, write and customize scripts beyond the record/playback scenarios.If you are not a local candidate but are relocating, please inform me of your arrangements (i.e., date and city/state you are relocating to).Kforce (NASDAQ: KFRC) is a full-service specialty staffing firm providing flexible and permanent staffing solutions for organizations and career management for individuals in the specialty skill areas of information technology, finance & accounting, human resources, engineering, pharmaceutical, health care and scientific. Backed by more than 1,500 recruiting specialists, Kforce operates in more than 40 markets in North America. For more information, please visit our web site at