Senior Performance Test Engineer

Performance Test  Engineer

Experience Level: Senior

About the position 

Test Automation Engineer contributing to Test Automation Design and Development to ensure best customer experience with our products.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the entire team to identify potential application and infrastructure bottlenecks and suggest changes
• Set up the performance test process from scratch
• Own the performance test process
• Work on latest technologies and gain insight on new business models
• Expand scope and depth of your technical leadership
• Work alongside architects to set up the performance test processes
• Identify bottlenecks, stress and load test and follow performance testing processes
• Build modular automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based applications and mobile applications utilizing SOA design and APIs in a continuous integration environment provide remediation plans
• Utilizing load, stress, and analysis tools to model performance scenarios, perform initial analysis using performance monitoring tool and identify potential system and resources bottlenecks
• Analyze performance results and produce relevant reports and quality metrics with suggestions for improvements
• Research new ways of performance testing and recommend system configuration and tuning improvements based on observations
• Positive attitude, result oriented, demonstrating Accountability and Ownership using a variety of techniques and collaboration
• Take ownership of the non-functional test solution from project initiation to final acceptance, with responsibility for each NFT milestone within the cycle
• Provide professional project planning, estimation, non-functional test approaches, Technical Test solution quality, issue/risk management and results/analysis in keeping with department standards.

Must Have Skills:

•  Overall  8+ years of experience with 3+years of  relevant experience in Performance Testing with excellent expertise in Jmeter. 
• Demonstrated capability to drive out Test Strategies in a global organization and to oversee the testing team activities and initiatives for best practices.
• 3 years of hands-on experience in Automation Frameworks like Code Cept  /Selenium/Appium. 
• Knowledge of JVM tuning based on test results.
• Experienced in working on Linux/Unix.
• Strong experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or k6.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, or Groovy) for creating custom test scripts.
• Solid understanding of performance testing concepts, including load, stress, and capacity testing.
• Experience with monitoring and profiling tools (Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and testing cloud-based applications.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration of performance testing (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Good to Have:

• Ability to take each performance issue analysis as far as possible, to the point of being able to suggest a fix
• Ability to recommend scope for performance tests and to interpret results
• At least 1 year experience with designing, planning and execution of system testing strategies and tactics to ensure software quality at all stages of the system life cycle
• Minimum of 3 years working on performance testing and engineering of large scale eCommerce/web applications
• Experience in planning and estimation of performance test team activities, manage test preparation and test execution tasks, ensuring they are completed on time

Qualification and Experience

• BE/B.Tech or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field.

Location : Bangalore