AppScan Product _Sr. Performance Engineer _Remote Location

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"HCL Software” : - Is a Product Development Division of HCL Tech : That operates its primary Software business. At HCL Software we Develop, Market, Sell and Support over 20 Product families in the areas of Customer Experience, Digital Solutions, Secure DevOps, Security & Automation.

About AppScan Product :

HCL AppScan is a comprehensive suite of application security solutions for developers, DevOps, security teams and CISOs, with on-premises, on cloud, and hybrid deployment options. The suite includes various security tools that offer features such as vulnerability scanning, code analysis, and real-time threat detection, providing significant benefits in protecting software applications throughout their lifecycle.

Role summary

Hiring a hands-on Performance Engineer for AppScan Enterprise (on-prem : Liberty + IIS servers, agent machines, DB server, containerised target apps). You’ll own load, stress, soak, spike and scalability testing; maintain the perf lab fully; automate test execution and environment setup; systematically compare performance against established baselines and trace regressions to specific component changes; debug performance degradations at Liberty, IIS, DB, agent, or container layers with minimal handoffs.

Key Responsibilities

Performance testing & analysis

• Design & run load, stress, soak, spike tests across ASE stack (Liberty + IIS + agents + DB + containerised targets).
• Compare current results with baseline metrics; detect regressions, produce clear RCA, and tune Liberty JVM / IIS / DB / agent / container settings.
• Define SLAs, benchmarks, and capacity targets for all components.

Perf lab & environment management

Automation & DevOps for perf lab

Monitoring, observability & RCA

Collaboration & delivery

Required skills & experience (must-have)