Senior Performance Test Engineer

Role: Senior Performance Test Engineer

Experience: 8+years

Location: Kochi/ Trivandrum/ Bangalore/ Remote

Mandatory Skills: Performance Testing - (load, stress, spike, capacity, endurance) • APM tools - Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Datadog. • Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) • Python, Java, Groovy, or Shell scripting

Good to have Skills: Functional testing knowledge • Test Automation

• Work with customers to capture the performance requirements and convert it into performance SLAs that can be used for performance testing.
• Define performance test strategy for applications built with different types of architecture like Client Server based architecture, Microservice based architecture etc.
• Design and execute load, stress, capacity, spike and endurance testing using the leading tools in the market including JMeter.
• Perform both server side and client-side performance testing, verify the performance of batch jobs etc.
• Design and execute performance tests (load, stress, spike, capacity, endurance) using tools such as JMeter, WebLoad, LoadNinja, or similar.
• Monitor application performance using (APM) tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Do performance and scalability testing of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins) so that performance tests get executed as a part of the build release.
• Create advanced test scenarios and analyze large datasets using scripts in Python, Java, Groovy, or Shell scripting.
• Work on performance modeling, capacity planning, and scalability assessments.
• Create the performance summary report and share it with the relevant stakeholders.
• Work with the different projects and gather the performance requirements including the infrastructure requirements.
• Work with stakeholders (Product Owners, Architects, Development Leads) to gather performance requirements and define performance SLAs.
• Develop performance test strategies for applications built on various architectures (e.g., client-server, microservices).
• Plan and set up test environments, test data, and test scripts aligned with the performance strategy.
• Work with stakeholders (Product Owners, Architects, Development Leads) to gather performance requirements and define performance SLAs.
• Develop performance test strategies for applications built on various architectures (e.g., client-server, microservices).
• Plan and set up test environments, test data, and test scripts aligned with the performance strategy.
• Execute performance tests and analyze results to identify bottlenecks in application, infrastructure, or database layers.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps teams to recommend tuning & optimization measures.
• Re-execute tests post-optimization to validate improvements against SLAs.
• Generate and present performance test summary reports and actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor production performance baselines and provide recommendations for scalability and reliability.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging performance testing tools, frameworks, and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers on performance testing methodologies and tools.