--- title: "Hire JMeter Testers for Load Testing, Offshore QA | Azendo" description: "Hire JMeter testers, or a JMeter expert, for load tests across many protocols, with distributed runs when one machine is not enough. Managed by Azendo." url: "https://azendo.co/skills/jmeter/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) 3. JMeter # JMeter specialists for your dedicated team. JMeter is a long-established Java load testing tool with a graphical test plan builder and protocol support well beyond HTTP, including JDBC, JMS, FTP and LDAP. It runs distributed across machines for high load generation. Our JMeter testers find out how much load your system takes before your customers do. They build test plans that match real traffic, with results you can trust. ## When you need a JMeter expert. The usual trigger has a date on it: a product launch, a sales campaign, a new enterprise customer who will double the traffic. You need to know the limit and what breaks first, with enough weeks left to fix it. JMeter is the natural choice when the system speaks more than HTTP. One test plan can call REST endpoints, run SQL through JDBC, publish to a JMS queue and query LDAP. Enterprise teams often have years of .jmx plans as well, and those need a maintainer more than a rewrite. A specialist also helps when results can't be trusted. Every run gives a different number, or the test passes and production still falls over. ## What our JMeter testers deliver in a sprint. * Workload model Turning production logs and analytics into a load profile: which user flows, in what mix, at what arrival rate and with how much think time. * Scripts with correlation Recording a user flow, then replacing session tokens and IDs with JSON and regular expression extractors. Users come from a CSV file, so each thread logs in as a different customer. * Pipeline runs Running plans in non-GUI mode from Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, with pass and fail thresholds on p95 response time and error rate. * Distributed load Setting up a controller and worker nodes in containers or cloud instances, and watching their CPU and network so the generators aren't the limit. * Live results Sending metrics through the Backend Listener to InfluxDB and Grafana, next to what the servers reported during the same test window. * Reporting Writing up each test: the load reached, the first bottleneck, the evidence and the fix to try next. Performance testing needs someone who stays long enough to know what normal looks like. The performance test engineers we assign stay on your product, inside a [dedicated QA and testing team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/). Each release is compared with the one before. ## Why JMeter results can't always be trusted. Running the load from the GUI is the beginner's mistake. The interface and listeners such as View Results Tree use so much memory that the test machine slows down and the numbers mean nothing. Real runs use the command line and write results to a file. Averages hide the problem. A mean of 300 ms can sit on top of one user in twenty waiting six seconds. A good tester reports percentiles and error rates, and reads them against the server's own metrics. Unrealistic scripts are harder to notice. A test with no think time, one user account and cached responses measures a system that doesn't exist. JMeter also doesn't run JavaScript, so it measures the server's response and never what the browser renders. ## Questions about JMeter and load testing. * JMeter, k6 or Gatling: which should we use? If you already have JMeter plans, or you test JDBC, JMS or LDAP, stay with JMeter. For a new HTTP-only suite written by developers, k6 or Gatling keep the tests as code and need fewer machines for the same load. We recruit for the tool you choose. * How often should we load test? A small test on every release candidate catches regressions early. A full-scale test before each big event checks capacity. If you only run the big one once a year, every result is a surprise. * Can we hire just one JMeter expert? Yes. An offshore QA team can begin with one performance test engineer. We search for that person at our risk and expense, with no deposit and no upfront fee. If we don't find the right person within the agreed hiring time, you walk away and pay nothing. ## Roles that use JMeter * [Performance Test Engineer QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/performance-test-engineer/) ## Service areas that use JMeter * [QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill. ## What it's used with * [k6, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/k6/) * [Gatling, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/gatling/) * [Locust, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/locust/) * [Grafana, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/grafana/) * [Jenkins, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/jenkins/) * [GitLab CI, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/gitlab-ci/) * [APM, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/apm/) * [Database query profiling, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/database-query-profiling/) ## Related in qa and delivery tooling * [TestRail, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/testrail/) * [Jest, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/jest/) * [React Testing Library, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/react-testing-library/) * [XCTest, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/xctest/) * [Espresso, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/espresso/) * [Detox, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/detox/) * [Flutter Test, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/flutter-test/) * [Playwright, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/playwright/) ## Tell us what you need JMeter for. A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like. [Browse all skills](https://azendo.co/skills/)