Senior Performance Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Performance Testing & Engineering

• Design and implement comprehensive performance testing strategies for web, mobile, API, and distributed applications.

• Develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, or NeoLoad.

• Conduct load, stress, endurance, scalability, spike, and volume testing.

• Define performance benchmarks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Analyze performance metrics and identify bottlenecks across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers.

Performance Analysis & Optimization

• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

• Perform root cause analysis using monitoring, profiling, and observability tools.

• Recommend application, database, and infrastructure optimizations.

• Prepare detailed performance reports and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Automation & CI/CD

• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop automated performance testing frameworks and reusable components.

• Establish performance quality gates for release readiness.

• Support shift-left testing initiatives by incorporating performance validation early in the development lifecycle.

Cloud & Modern Architecture Testing

• Evaluate performance of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, and containerized platforms.

• Validate system scalability and resilience under varying workloads.

• Support reliability and fault-tolerance testing initiatives.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development.

• Participate in architecture reviews and provide performance engineering guidance.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams.

• Drive adoption of performance testing best practices and standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

• 7+ years of software testing experience with at least 4+ years focused on performance testing and engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with: Apache JMeter /LoadRunner /Gatling /k6 /NeoLoad

• Experience testing web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of Performance testing methodologies, Scalability and capacity planning, Workload modeling, Reliability engineering

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning concepts.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications