Lead Performance Engineer

The engineer will also be responsible for analyzing the results of the tests and providing recommendations for performance improvements. Additionally, this role may also involve working with development teams to optimize the performance of their code and working with system administrators to ensure that the underlying infrastructure is properly configured for optimal performance. This role will usually require strong Java programming skills and experience with microservices, cloud infrastructure and technologies, and performance testing methodologies. Additionally, Engineer should be able to understand the Front end performance metrics and help teams in optimizing the performance scores.

• Experience in Front end application performance tools like Lighthouse, Web page test, Pagespeed Insights, etc
• Collaborating with multiple product teams and help in performance tuning of applications.
• Shift left and first-time quality - Automate Performance testing and integrate it to the existing CI/CD pipelines for a better quality and engineering experience.
• Performance Testing Tools: Performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling.
• Knowledge of Web Technologies: It is essential to have knowledge of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP.
• Strong analytical skills are necessary to interpret data and identify patterns, trends, and issues related to webpage load and performance.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication skills to collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve performance issues.

The specific responsibilities of a performance engineer managing a large, distributed application built on microservices, spring boot, and Google Cloud may include:

• Gather performance requirements using templates, logs, and monitoring tools.
• Work with Product teams to understand workload models for each system and gather performance Requirements.
• Create performance test plans and scenarios and develop test scripts in JMeter/K6/Gatling to meet the objectives of the performance test plan.
• Setup performance test and performance regression testing guidelines and standards
• Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Perform performance testing like Load Testing, Endurance Testing, Volume Testing, Scalability Testing, Spike Testing, and Stress Testing using Jmeter/Load runner.
• Perform root cause analysis using performance monitoring/Profiling tools and identifying potential system and resources bottlenecks.
• Analyze thread dumps, heap dumps, kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health.
• Experience in Front end application performance tools like Lighthouse, Web page test, Pagespeed Insights, etc
• Collaborating with multiple product teams and help in performance tuning of applications.
• Shift left and first-time quality - Automate Performance testing and integrate it to the existing CI/CD pipelines for a better quality and engineering experience.
• Performance Testing Tools: Performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling.
• Knowledge of Web Technologies: It is essential to have knowledge of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP.
• Strong analytical skills are necessary to interpret data and identify patterns, trends, and issues related to webpage load and performance.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication skills to collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve performance issues.