Test Architect

ClearRoute • Austin, TX

1d • $120,000 - $170,000

About The Position

ClearRoute is an is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We work with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.
We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software.
We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better.
Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem-Solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. We want to create a collaborative team to help build ClearRoute. This is an opportunity for you to build the organization from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.
We are seeking an experienced Test Architect to lead the performance testing strategy for a large-scale SaaS platform migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS. This is a critical role focused on validating system performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability throughout the migration journey.
You will be responsible for defining and delivering the performance testing approach, architecting and implementing K6-based testing frameworks, and providing technical leadership across a complex, distributed, multi-database environment. This role requires deep technical expertise combined with strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including performance testing in cloud-native environments.
• Proven background in performance and non-functional testing for large-scale, distributed systems.
• Expert level experience architecting and implementing K6 performance testing frameworks.
• Extensive experience in load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Experience testing large, complex SaaS platforms with multiple databases and high transactional volumes.
• Strong understanding of low-latency, high-bandwidth system design and validation.
• Experience working on on-prem to AWS migrations or similar cloud transformation initiatives.
• Strong technical leadership and ability to lead teams and manage testing engagements.
• Strategic thinking and technical problem-solving
• Strong stakeholder communication
• Leadership and mentoring capability
• Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced environments
• Results-driven, delivery-focused mindset

Nice To Haves

• CI/CD integration of performance testing pipelines.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Containerised and microservices-based architectures.
• Security and resilience testing in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end performance testing strategy for the migration of a SaaS platform from on-premise to AWS.
• Architect, implement, and maintain performance testing frameworks using K6, aligned to cloud-native best practices.
• Lead performance validation activities to ensure low latency, high throughput, scalability, and system resilience in AWS.
• Design and execute load, stress, endurance, and spike testing across large, complex, multi-database systems.
• Work closely with architecture, engineering, DevOps, and cloud teams to ensure performance is built into system design.
• Analyse performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable recommendations for optimisation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to performance testing engineers.
• Own performance governance, standards, and best practices.
• Support stakeholder engagement, clearly communicating performance risks, outcomes, and improvements.

Benefits

• Flexible Work Arrangements: We understand the importance of work-life balance. We offer flexible working arrangements to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.
• Profit Sharing: As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for our profit-sharing program, which rewards your contributions to the company's success.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: We're currently finalizing our comprehensive benefits package, which will include a range of standard US employment benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed