diff --git a/test/perf-test/cleanup.sh b/test/perf-test/cleanup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ae808704b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/perf-test/cleanup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+for i in `kubectl get appwrapper -n default |grep defaultaw | awk '{print $1}'`; do kubectl delete appwrapper $i -n default ; done
diff --git a/test/perf-test/perf.sh b/test/perf-test/perf.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7450d7e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/perf-test/perf.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(readlink -f `dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`)
+
+function help() {
+    echo "usage: perf.sh [-h]"
+    echo
+    echo "Description: Runs Appwrapper performance test script(s) in subdirectories under $SCRIPT_DIR."
+    echo
+    echo "Preconditions: "
+    echo "   - The script assumes you've logged into your cluster already. If not, it will tell you to login."
+    echo "   - The script checks that you have the mcad-controller installed, otherwise it'll tell you to install it first."
+    echo
+    echo "Options:"
+    echo "  -h       Print this help message"
+    echo
+}
+
+function check_kubectl_login_status() {
+    set +e
+    kubectl get ns default &> /dev/null
+    res="$?"
+    set -e
+    OCP="$res"
+      if [ $OCP == 1 ]
+      then
+        echo "You need to login to your Kubernetes Cluster"
+        exit 1
+      else
+        echo
+        echo "Nice, looks like you're logged in"
+      fi
+}
+
+function check_mcad_installed_status() {
+    set +e
+    kubectl get pod -A |grep mcad-controller &> /dev/null
+    res2="$?"
+    kubectl get crd |grep appwrapper &> /dev/null
+    res3="$?"
+    set -e
+    MCAD="$res2"
+    CRD="$res3"
+      if [[ $MCAD == 1 ]] || [[ $CRD == 1 ]]
+      then
+        echo "You need Install MCAD Controller first before running this script"
+        exit 1
+      else
+        echo "Nice, MCAD Controller is installed"
+    fi
+}
+
+
+while getopts hf: option; do
+    case $option in
+        h)
+            help
+            exit 0
+            ;;
+        *)
+            ;;
+    esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+# Track whether we have a valid kubectl login
+echo "Checking whether we have a valid cluster login or not..."
+check_kubectl_login_status
+
+# Track whether you have the MCAD controller installed
+echo "Checking MCAD Controller installation status"
+echo
+check_mcad_installed_status
+
+echo
+read -p "How many appwrapper jobs do you want?" jobs
+
+# Start the timer now
+SECONDS=0
+
+echo "jobs number is $jobs"
+export STARTTIME=`date +"%T"`
+echo " "
+echo "Jobs started at: $STARTTIME" |tee job-$STARTTIME.log
+echo " "
+
+# This fixes the number of jobs to be one less so the for loop gets the right amount
+((realjobs=$jobs-1))
+
+for num in $(eval echo "{0.."$realjobs"}")
+do
+    next_num=$(($num + 1))
+    echo "Submitting job $next_num"
+# Had to do this OSTYPE because sed acts differently on Linux versus Mac
+    case "$OSTYPE" in
+      linux-gnu*)
+        sed -i "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+      darwin*) 
+        sed -i '' "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+      *) 
+        sed -i "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+    esac
+    kubectl apply -f ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml
+done
+
+    # Let's reset the original preempt-exp.yaml file back to original value 
+    case "$OSTYPE" in
+      linux-gnu*)
+        sed -i "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+      darwin*) 
+        sed -i '' "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+      *) 
+        sed -i "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
+    esac
+
+# Check for all jobs to report complete
+jobstatus=`kubectl get jobs -n default --no-headers --field-selector status.successful=1 |wc -l`
+
+while [ $jobstatus -lt $jobs ]
+do
+   echo "Number of completed jobs is: " $jobstatus " and the goal is: " $jobs
+   sleep 10
+   jobstatus=`kubectl get jobs -n default --no-headers --field-selector status.successful=1 |wc -l`
+done
+
+echo " "
+export FINISHTIME=`date +"%T"`
+echo "All $jobstatus jobs finished: $FINISHTIME" |tee -a job-$STARTTIME.log
+echo "Total amount of time for $jobs appwrappers is: $SECONDS seconds" |tee -a ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$STARTTIME.log
+echo " "
+echo "Test results are stored in this file: ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$next_num-$STARTTIME.log"
+
+# Rename the log to show the number of jobs used
+mv ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$STARTTIME.log ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$next_num-$STARTTIME.log
+
+#Ask if you want to auto-cleanup the appwrapper jobs
+echo "Do you want to cleanup the most recently created appwrappers? [Y/n]"
+read DELETE
+if [[ $DELETE == "Y" || $DELETE == "y" ]]; then
+        echo "OK, deleting"
+        ${SCRIPT_DIR}/cleanup.sh 
+else
+        echo "OK, you'll need to cleanup yourself later using ./cleanup.sh"
+fi
diff --git a/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml b/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d74c00c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml
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+apiVersion: mcad.ibm.com/v1beta1
+kind: AppWrapper
+metadata:
+  name: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  schedulingSpec:
+    minAvailable: 1
+    requeuing:
+        timeInSeconds: 120
+        growthType: "exponential" 
+  priority: 9
+  resources:
+    Items: []
+    GenericItems:
+    - replicas: 1
+      completionstatus: Complete
+      custompodresources:
+      - replicas: 1
+        requests:
+          cpu: 10m
+          memory: 10M
+          nvidia.com/gpu: 0
+        limits:
+          cpu: 500m
+          memory: 128M
+          nvidia.com/gpu: 0
+      generictemplate:
+        apiVersion: batch/v1
+        kind: Job
+        metadata:
+          namespace: default
+          name: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
+          # labels:
+          #   appwrapper.mcad.ibm.com: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
+        spec:
+          parallelism: 1
+          completions: 1
+          template:
+            metadata:
+              namespace: default
+              labels:
+                appwrapper.mcad.ibm.com: "defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1"
+            spec:
+              containers:
+              - name: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
+                image: ubi8-minimal:latest
+                command: [ "/bin/bash", "-c", "--" ]
+                args: [ "sleep 10" ]
+                resources:
+                  requests:
+                    memory: "10Mi"
+                    cpu: "10m"
+                  limits:
+                    memory: "128Mi"
+                    cpu: "500m"
+              restartPolicy: Never