Position Description :
We are looking for an experienced Senior Test Engineer – Performance Testing who will play a key role in assessing and optimizing the performance, scalability, and reliability of software products, particularly in cloud-native and microservices environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in performance testing tools, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring solutions with a solid understanding of application architecture and DevOps practices.
Your future duties and responsibilities :
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests for applications, APIs, and microservices hosted on cloud platforms (AWS / Azure).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, DevOps, product) to understand architecture and system flows, and identify performance bottlenecks early.
- Create and maintain performance test scripts using tools like JMeter (preferred), LoadRunner, or Gatling.
- Analyze system performance using tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and Dynatrace to identify trends, bottlenecks, and areas of concern.
- Build and enhance performance test frameworks and integrate them into CI / CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
- Simulate real-world scenarios to validate application performance under various loads and across environments.
- Interpret performance results, correlate metrics, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve application responsiveness and stability.
- Work in Agile teams, contributing to sprint planning and product release cycles with a performance-first mindset.
- Document performance test strategies, scenarios, execution results, and reports for stakeholders.
- Collaborate on performance tuning at all layers — frontend, middleware, backend, database, and network infrastructure.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role :
Preferred Qualifications :
8+ years of experience in performance engineering and testing.Strong proficiency in scripting languages such as C#, JavaScript, or C, and sound OOPs concepts.Hands-on experience in SQL Server for performance testing DB-intensive operations.Experience in testing distributed cloud applications and understanding cloud-native architecture impacts on performance.Strong exposure to microservices performance testing, service-level validation, and throughput / latency analysis.Experience in CI / CD pipelines and automation of performance tests in release workflows.Familiarity with product testing lifecycle in Agile environments and understanding of DevOps practices.Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.Effective communication and documentation skills to share findings with technical and non-technical stakeholders.Experience in performance optimization and working closely with development / infra teams for resolution.Skills :
Performance TuningPerformance / Stress TestingPythonGrafanaKubernetes