AppScan Product _Sr. Performance Engineer _Remote Location

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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

Install, upgrade, patch ASE components : server VM, agents, DB server, Liberty & IIS servers, plus the containerised targets.

Maintain versioned, reproducible setups (VMs, containers, configs) to ensure consistent and comparable test runs.

Ensure environmental isolation and stability to prevent drift or inconsistencies between runs.

Automation & DevOps for perf lab

Automate installation, patching, environment provisioning and teardown with scripts / tools suited for on-prem Windows + Liberty environments.

Build pipelines for scheduled test runs, results gathering, automated reporting, and alerting.

Monitoring, observability & RCA

Capture telemetry : Liberty metrics (JVM / feature load), IIS counters, agent logs, DB performance metrics, container logs & traces under load.

Use monitoring, tracing, metrics and logs to isolate configuration, code, resource or agent related bottlenecks; deliver reproducible root cause diagnostics.

Collaboration & delivery

Collaborate with Dev, QA, and Product teams to ensure performance considerations are built into design; produce fixes with clear repro steps and measurable improvements.

Share best practices for ASE-specific performance testing, lab setup / maintenance, baseline-regression approaches, and automation hygiene.

Required skills & experience (must-have)

6-10+ years in performance engineering ; Automation, site reliability ; DevOs with hands-on experience in on-prem Windows + Liberty + IIS environments + SQL DB.

Strong experience with load / stress test tools (e.g. JMeter, k6, Gatling) in multi-component setups.

Solid scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, or Bash) for ASE installs / patching, lab setup, and test orchestration.

Deep experience tuning and debugging Liberty JVM, IIS configuration, DB server, agents, and containerised target apps.

Proven ability to use telemetry / observability tools (metrics, logs, traces) under load for baseline comparison & regression RCA.