Tester II, Product (Performance Tester)

As a Performance Test Engineer, you will be expected to provide Performance Test Engineering services to different customer facing applications. This position will be responsible for inclusive but not limited to Capturing applications’ current performance, Scripting, Result analysis to pinpoint bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements, develop performance baseline (SLA), Infrastructure monitoring, Thresholds setup, Alerting, and Azure cloud migration support.

Are you a talented communicator with passion for technical topics? Do you like to solve a variety of problems with and for your customers? Then this is the right challenge for you. As a Performance Tester, you will be part of a global quality management team striving for delivery and quality of outstanding products and services.

What You Will Do:

• Participate in software and system performance analysis, tuning, and demand/capacity planning for business critical, large scale, and high availability applications.
• Manage the availability, scalability, security, and performance of applications.
• Models’ technical requirements to evaluate performance impacts.
• Develop performance test scenarios and scripts by analyzing application and usage patterns.
• Run scripts and analyze performance test results to evaluate impact on production infrastructure and make comparisons with previous release benchmarks.
• Review test executions to confirm that performance tests are valid and operating as expected.
• Identify issues in the test execution, test data, and performance environment that are impacting tests.
• Perform in-depth technical root cause analysis for high priority issues spanning all technology layers/stacks and engage developers, product, architecture teams as appropriate for resolution.
• Provide tuning recommendations to resolve complex performance issues (response time, throughput, Heap, CPU and garbage collection, etc.).
• Analyze performance issues by looking at heap dumps, thread dump, CPU, and memory usage metrics.
• Works with cross functional project teams to define performance metrics and acceptance criteria..

What You Will Need:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred.
• + years of experience in the field of Performance Test Engineering.
• + years of experience working with different performance testing tools , JMeter, NeoLoad etc.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• EE performance testing experience including NFR analysis, workload modelling, script designing etc in coordination with stakeholders
• Design, Develop and execute performance and scalability test cases to measure throughput, latency, and response times under various load conditions
• Knowledge of APM tools like AppDynamics, New Relic
• Involves troubleshooting production and performance issues, analyzing system efficiency, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal performance and scalability
• Perform root cause analysis for performance optimization and architecture, running deep dives into problem areas and contributing to faster, cleaner, and fewer maintenance fixes.
• Work with product management, development, test, and/or business teams to understand and define success criteria for application performance
• Good understanding of API automation
• Test Management Tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Xray
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration Tools- Jenkins, Azure CI/CD
• Knowledge of any cloud providing services (Azure, AWS)
• Good communication skills, technical problem-solving skills and ability to acquire new skills autonomously
• Knowledge of any Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool will be an added advantage

Reporting Relationships:

Will report to a senior level Manager or technical manager and has no direct reports.

Working Conditions:

The work environment will primarily be an air-conditioned office setting requiring the employee to sit for prolonged periods while concentrating on a computer screen.