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.