Senior QA Manager – Performance Engineering

McKesson

. Lead the Performance Engineering Center of Excellence by defining standards, frameworks, tooling strategy, governance, and enablement models .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $121,500 - $202,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in Performance Engineering and Quality Engineering, with a strong focus on designing and executing performance tests, automation strategies, and governance frameworks. Proficient in leading QA teams, integrating quality validation into CI/CD pipelines, and applying advanced performance metrics in high-volume healthcare environments.

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Performance Engineering LeadershipLoad Testing Tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)Automation Strategy (Selenium, Playwright)CI/CD Integration (Jenkins, Azure DevOps)Healthcare Technology Experience

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Hard Skills

Performance TestingWorkload ModelingAdvanced ScriptingProtocol-Level TestingJava ProgrammingPython ProgrammingMicroservices ArchitectureAPI TestingDatabase Query TuningJVM Performance Tuning

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipStakeholder CommunicationMentoringCollaborationProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

SeleniumPlaywrightJMeterLoadRunnerDynatraceAWSAzureGCPKubernetesGitLab CI

Industry Keywords

Healthcare TechnologyEMREHRHIPAA CompliancePerformance Engineering CoEClinical WorkflowPatient-Facing PlatformsAudit ReadinessHL7FHIR

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformGroovyJavaJenkinsJMeterKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBOraclePostgresPythonReactRedisSeleniumSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Performance Engineering Center of Excellence by defining standards, frameworks, tooling strategy, governance, and enablement models
Design workload models, performance baselines, SLAs, regression thresholds, concurrency targets, throughput goals, and data-volume models
Plan and execute load, stress, spike, soak, capacity, and scalability testing for high-volume healthcare workflows
Translate performance results into engineering recommendations and remediation priorities
Partner with development, architecture, DevOps, and database teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers
Define automation coverage targets and guide scalable Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, or equivalent frameworks
Establish and track performance, scalability, reliability, security, accessibility, environment stability, release confidence, and defect escape metrics
Lead release-readiness and QA governance reviews, including entry and exit criteria, go/no-go recommendations, defect triage, test evidence, and risk communication
Improve QA productivity, test-cycle time, defect detection, MTTR, sprint predictability, environment stability, and automation reliability
Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, DevOps, and QA leaders during planning, design reviews, triage, release readiness, and product discussions
Support the Testing CoE through reusable frameworks, standards, automation assets, lessons learned, and best practices
Mentor QA teams and lead virtual teams across US and India time zones

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of progressive Quality Engineering and/or Performance Engineering experience
4+ years in formal people management or engineering leadership roles managing QA teams of five or more engineers
Ability to design, script, execute, analyze, and communicate performance tests and findings independently
Hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, Gatling, NeoLoad, or equivalent tools
Advanced scripting, protocol-level testing, workload modeling, distributed load generation, correlation, and parameterization
Programming and scripting in Java, Groovy, Python, or equivalent languages
Knowledge of microservices, APIs, API gateways, event-driven systems, containers, Java Spring Boot, React, and micro-frontends
Experience integrating quality and performance validation into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
Understanding of JVM performance tuning, garbage collection, thread analysis, connection pools, application servers, operating systems, infrastructure utilization, and autoscaling
Experience with Dynatrace or comparable APM tools, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, monitoring, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, query tuning, and indexing
Troubleshooting across application code, JVM, database, network, infrastructure, and frontend layers
Ability to guide automation strategy using Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, API automation, regression coverage targets, and framework governance
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted QA, test automation, code generation, analysis, or productivity tools
Ability to lead QA strategy, test planning, process and automation maturity, release sign-off, quality metrics, NFR governance, process improvement, and stakeholder communication
Healthcare technology, EMR, EHR, clinical workflow, patient-facing platform, or mission-critical healthcare product experience preferred
Performance Engineering CoE, community of practice, shared tooling, governance, or enablement experience preferred
Kubernetes, container resource tuning, autoscaling, and AWS, Azure, or GCP experience preferred
Knowledge of HL7, FHIR, healthcare data sensitivity, HIPAA, audit readiness, and compliance collaboration preferred
Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation package
Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered
Equal employment opportunities
Reasonable accommodation for job search or application