Gatling Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Gatling
Hooman B.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at Möbel Roller GmbH
- Further development of the existing e-commerce platform based on SAP Commerce (Hybris) to meet the growing demands of digital commerce.
- Ensuring the scalability and performance of the backend, so the platform remained stable and efficient even under heavy user load.
- Development and integration of new OCC REST APIs and services for modular extensions and flexible adjustments, to implement new features quickly.
- Optimization of data flows and interfaces, which significantly improved platform efficiency and system performance.
- Ensuring a maintainable and scalable code base by using Clean Code principles, proven design patterns, and a future-proof architecture.
- Reduction of errors through extensive testing with JUnit, Mockito, and load tests with Gatling, supported by the introduction of automated test processes.
- Improved system performance through targeted refactoring measures and efficient database queries, especially to handle peak loads.
- Use of modern cloud and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Grafana to ensure a stable and monitored infrastructure.
- Clear improvement in efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the platform, which now meets the demands of a dynamic and growing e-commerce market.
Frederik C.
Last position:
Freelance Full-Stack Software Developer at Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Development of the digital organ donation register, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)
Implementation of user stories in several microservices (frontend and backend)
Ensuring quality with unit, integration, and E2E tests
Conducting code reviews
Coordination with other development teams
Taking over the software license check and simplifying the process
Responsibility for implementing and documenting the business logging
Setting up a development environment with Docker Compose
Leif S.
Last position:
Software Architect at QualityMinds GmbH
- Lead software architect and technical team lead for a new logistics platform for load carrier trade
- Core design of software architecture using arc42 spanning frontend, backend, delivery strategies and cloud native infrastructure with Domain Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture
- Evaluation of initial business requirements and software development roadmap
- Technical team lead in a Scrum team of 9 people
- Introduced and strengthened AI-assisted (JetBrains AI & GitHub Copilot) and collaborative code development strategies to speed up feature development
Ayhan G.
Last position:
Senior QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer / SDET at Rewe digital
Consulting, designing, and implementing the software testing lifecycle for multiple Android apps and backends Introducing test automation with Appium, SpringBootTest, RestAssured Setting up and managing emulators Developing an E2E library, an integration library, a Testcontainers library, and other libraries Developing, implementing, and advising on CI strategies Building the test environment with Testcontainers and virtualization Developing and implementing test cases for integration tests and end-to-end tests Establishing a maintainable test architecture with low entry barriers to simplify the creation of automated tests Some tools and technologies used: JUnit, RestAssured, Testcontainers, Kubedock, Appium, Android emulator, Jira Xray, Mockito, WireMock, Spring Framework, Kotlin
Tobias J.
Last position:
Design of an AI-Agent-Based ERP System
- Design of an LLM-based agent system to control the ERP software
- Development of agent workflows with LangGraph and PydanticAI
- Planning interfaces between business logic and language models
- Planning agent orchestration
- Prototype development and demonstration
Tools: Python, Pydantic, React, LangChain, LangGraph, Linux
Nikhil G.
Last position:
Co-founder / Solution Architect at Lima Care GmbH
- Developed a comprehensive business concept for a medical fall detection device based on a patented process registered in Germany
- Identified and collected use cases for medical device deployment in residential buildings and healthcare provider facilities
- Expanded the product scope to industry standards such as HL7/FHIR and designed a product based on modern communication protocols for IIoT
- Supported offshoring activities, defined SLA and scope-of-work documents for development teams after selecting various vendors
- Identified and selected hardware components (Terrabee, E-Con Systems) for LIDAR/TDOA functions
- Defined integrated AI features and LLM models for patient fall detection as well as AI-based audio triggers
- Oversaw the implementation of algorithms for object detection, fall detection, and false alarm identification
Esmail S.
Last position:
Senior Load and Performance Tester at Deutsche Bahn (DB-Netz)
- Design, development, and execution of load and performance tests for the PRISMA project
- Use of Apache Jmeter, Gatling, Apache ActiveMQ, Jms/Tibco Ems, SikuliX, Jython, Amazon AWS, PAN-Client
- Methods: load tests, test automation
Knud W.
Last position:
Lead Programmer, Architect and Deputy Product Owner at Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Lead programmer, architect and deputy product owner
- Completed transition from zPDV to STEP
- Ensured quality of C++ and Perl sources through automated and manual checks
- Supported resolution of incidents and errors in testing
- Implemented batch for supplementary assignment of payment run numbers
- Implemented batch for distribution of SGB 2 information to the central payment unit
- Supported replacement of Solaris with Linux
- Upgraded gcc from 7.4 to 9.3
- Programmatically generated Makefiles from Borland projects for builds
- Extended funding data with new attribute “internship travel cost indicator”
- Programmatically generated XSD and WSDL files from IDL definitions
- Represented the product owner when needed
- Implemented batch for one-time payment processing
- Developed generator for Liquibase files
- Implemented and maintained regular anonymization of production data
- Supported migration from SLES 12 to SLES 15
- Supported introduction of mutual TLS
- Implemented batch for sending deletion impulses to EDA BE
- Organized script directory structure
- Investigated potential introduction of String-Latin and implemented minimal solution
- Remediated security findings identified by CheckMarx
- Supported PAP recalculations and general change notices
- Converted ERP interfaces from SOAP to REST
- Planned technical and business topics such as register modernization, cash register security, training costs, four-eyes principle
Timo K.
Last position:
Senior Fullstack Developer
- Lead Developer / Tech Lead in a large banking group for a complete redevelopment of payment systems
- Rebuilding payment processing in stream processing
- Development and design of cross-border payment stream processing based on Kafka and Kafka Streams
- Development of different input formats for the business team using Drools rules to dynamically adjust validation rules
- Evaluation and comparison of different public cloud providers regarding the databases they offer
- Technologies & Tools: Java 21, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure, TDD, JEE, REST, Angular, Spark, Google Cloud, SCDF, PostgreSQL, Drools, Git, S3, MongoDB
Ioan D.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at ING
- Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
- Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, mortgage financing software.
- Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
- Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
- Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
- Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
- CiL SCS consumer pacts with Finagle.
- CiL SCS touch point architecture integration.
- Team size: 10.
- Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, IntelliJ IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.
Jan M.
Last position:
Interface project at HR Solutions GmbH for Rhineland-Palatinate / BAMF at HR Solutions GmbH
- Developed an adapter from the central foreigner register to an internal application
- REST, JSON, OpenAPI, Spring Boot, Vue, Java, Maven, XAusländer
- Jira/Confluence/GitHub, Scrum+Kanban
Radoslav Y.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Radoslav Yankov – Software Engineering
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Statistics of experts using Gatling
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
1.8 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Doctorate
20%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Bulgarian
Speak two or more languages
92%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Gatling
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Gatling experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Automotive (58%)
- Banking and Finance (58%)
- Government and Administration (58%)
- Education (50%)
- Healthcare (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Telecommunication (50%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Performance testing with Gatling
Gatling is an open-source performance testing tool for web applications, APIs and distributed services. It models realistic user journeys, generates high request volumes and records response behavior through detailed reports. Its code-based approach makes scenarios reviewable, repeatable and suitable for version control.
Scenarios and protocols
Experts use Gatling to express requests, pauses, checks, feeders and assertions as executable simulations. The tool supports HTTP and WebSocket testing, while extensions cover protocols such as JMS and Kafka. A strong simulation reflects user behavior rather than sending identical requests without context.
Ecosystem and tooling
Gatling simulations commonly use Scala, Java or JavaScript, depending on the project setup and Gatling edition. Professionals connect tests with Maven, Gradle, sbt or Gatling’s command-line tools, then publish results through CI/CD systems. They also work with containers, cloud runners, Git and observability tools to relate load results to system signals.
When companies need expertise
- Establish a baseline before a major release or migration
- Find bottlenecks in APIs, checkout flows or authentication paths
- Turn production traffic patterns into maintainable simulations
- Add performance gates to continuous delivery
- Diagnose failures under sustained or sudden load
Freelance expertise is useful when an internal team needs a reliable test strategy quickly or lacks experience interpreting results. In Germany, projects may involve remote collaboration across distributed product and platform teams, with on-site work added when workshops or release coordination require it.
Deliverables that matter
A professional typically delivers a scoped test plan, maintainable simulations, test data, environment assumptions and clear acceptance criteria. Results should explain throughput, latency, error rates and saturation points in business terms. Useful handover material includes repeatable commands, pipeline configuration and guidance for future test runs.
What distinguishes strong professionals
The best Gatling specialists understand both test code and the systems behind the traffic. They can separate application limits from network, database or infrastructure constraints, control data correlation and avoid misleading test designs. They challenge unrealistic assumptions, protect test environments and communicate findings clearly to product, development and operations teams.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Gatling — answered in short.
Gatling is used for load, stress, endurance and regression testing of web applications, APIs and distributed services. It helps teams observe latency, throughput and failures while simulated users perform realistic workflows.
Gatling uses code-based simulations and fits naturally into version control and CI/CD workflows. JMeter offers a visual interface and a broad plugin ecosystem, so the better choice depends on the team’s preferred workflow, protocol needs and maintenance model.
A strong Gatling specialist should understand HTTP, APIs, authentication, test data and distributed systems. Familiarity with Scala, Java or JavaScript, plus Maven, Gradle, Git, containers and observability tools, is valuable for production-oriented projects.
The required depth depends on the risk and scope of the test. A focused API baseline may need a narrower skill set, while a complex Gatling program requires experience with workload modeling, correlated data, pipeline integration and root-cause analysis.
Yes. Gatling projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because simulations, repositories and reports are digital. Teams should still agree on access to test environments, communication routines and language expectations; on-site workshops can help when systems or stakeholders are difficult to coordinate remotely.
Ask the Gatling professional to explain how they would model user behavior, control test data and distinguish application bottlenecks from infrastructure limits. Review a past deliverable or simulation for readable structure, meaningful assertions, repeatability and conclusions that lead to concrete action.
Gatling supports HTTP and WebSocket scenarios and can be extended for other protocols through its ecosystem. Its value is strongest when the specialist chooses the right protocol model and connects traffic behavior with the system’s real dependencies.
Before using Gatling, agree on the business journeys, target workload, success criteria, test data, environment limits and reporting format. The team should also define how results will be reviewed and whether simulations become part of the regular delivery pipeline.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 771 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 80% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects are German (100%), English (83%), and Bulgarian (8%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (58%), and Banking and Finance (58%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Gatling in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (92%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Gatling
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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