Senior Performance Test Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance testing strategies including load, stress, and capacity planning using tools such as JMeter, Locust, and LoadRunner.
  
• Automate performance testing within CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation.
  

• Diagnostics & Optimization

• Analyze system performance using thread dumps, heap dumps, TCP dumps, and APM tools (e.g., New Relic).
  
• Utilize log analysis platforms like Splunk to create dashboards, queries, and regex-based filters for root-cause analysis.
  
• Optimize application servers (Tomcat, Node.js, Spring Boot) and network performance using tools like Wireshark, Extrahop, and Riverbed.
  

• Monitoring & Front-End Performance

• Monitor production systems and proactively identify bottlenecks using APM and observability tools.
  
• Improve browser-side performance using Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, Catchpoint, and WebPageTest.
  

• Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with developers, SREs, QA, and DevOps to embed performance considerations into design, development, and deployment.
  
• Participate in code reviews to ensure performance and architectural standards.
  
• Mentor junior engineers and promote performance engineering best practices across teams.
  

• Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in performance engineering.
  
• Contribute to feature design and system architecture with a performance-first mindset.
  

Years of Experience

Minimum Years of Experience

Minimum of 4 years of experience in a performance engineering lead role.

4 7 years

Minimum of 4 years of experience working with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, and microservice architecture.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional requirements, performance test planning, execution, reporting, analysis, and defect tracking
  
• Hands-on experience with at least one performance testing tool (e.g., JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, K6), with a strong preference for JMeter
  
• Proficiency with APM tools (e.g., New Relic, Dynatrace) for performance monitoring and analysis
  
• Experience with log indexing and querying tools like Splunk (queries, regex, dashboards, alerts)
  
• Experience with browser-side performance tools (e.g., Catchpoint, Lighthouse, Google Developer Tools, WebPageTest)
  
• Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning of application servers, including Tomcat, Node.js, and Spring Boot
  
• Strong knowledge of microservice architectures
  
• Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional requirements, performance test planning, execution, reporting, analysis, and defect tracking
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on coding experience in at least one programming language: Java, Python, or Groovy
  
• Experience analyzing heap/thread dumps and TCP dumps
  
• Experience with network packet capture analysis using Wireshark or CloudShark
  
• Certifications in Azure, Splunk, or New Relic