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Lead Analyst-Performance Testing

Lead Analyst-Performance Testing

CGIbangalore, India
12 hours ago
Job description

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 Tuning
  • Performance / Stress Testing
  • Python
  • Grafana
  • Kubernetes
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