Senior Quality Engineer - Performance

Overview

Designing comprehensive performance testing strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, scalability, and responsiveness across applications

Work closely with development and operations teams to Identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) and establishing benchmarks, monitoring solutions, and dashboards that provide real-time insights into system performance.

Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex performance-related issues in QA, Staging, Pre-production and/or Production environments.

Provide guidance and mentorship to junior QA engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous learning.

Utilize industry-standard performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) to simulate real-world scenarios and measure system performance, staying current with emerging tools and technologies in the performance testing space.

Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to integrate performance testing into the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, providing guidance and support to team members on performance testing best practices.

Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Network usage, Garbage Collection to verify the performance of the applications.

Generate performance graphs, session reports, and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.

Create comprehensive performance test documentation, including test plans, test scripts, and performance analysis reports, effectively communicating performance testing results and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

 

Duties & Responsibilities

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

6-9 years of experience with industry-standard performance test automation using tools like JMeter, BlazeMeter, Taurus, NeoLoad, LoadRunner (Optional)

Strong scripting knowledge in Beanshell/ Java/Python programming

Expertise in Test Planning, Test Strategy, workload model design, Test case design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management.

Good experience in NFR gathering from scratch for performance testing project.

Understand hardware and software architecture to effectively design and execute performance tests.

Experience in system monitoring techniques and tools such as Perfmon, Linux Performance Observability

Experience with one or more Application Performance Management software such as DataDog, AppDynamics or HoneyComb

This position requires a dynamic, hard-working and ambitious individual with excellent oral and written communication skills

Knowledge of Unix/Windows hardware, software, and applications environments (Java, .Net and Open Source) and a solid understanding of their associated capacity and performance indicators

Experience in investigating complex application/infrastructure performance issues

Extensive experience with AWS cloud technologies and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins or Azure DevOps to achieve continuous testing and deployment.

Good to have knowledge of Frontend Performance testing for web and mobile.

Experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) is a plus.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Agile development experience

Skills Required

Skills Required:

• Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills, and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to drive team deliverables from testing perspective
• Demonstrated skills and abilities needed to coordinate, facilitate, and participate in a collaborative approach to the completion of tasks or assignments
• Should have understanding of SOLID design principals
• Strong Object-Oriented design and implementation skills
• Ability to develop test automation framework using C#, Selenium, SQL and BDD
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing software, including system management standards and solutions
• Understanding of NuGet package management including creation, deployment and version management

 

Qualifications:

• Have HEART. To work here, you must be:
• Humble– self-aware and respectful
• Effective– measurably move the needle& immeasurably add value
• Adaptable– innately curious and constantly changing
• Remarkable– stand out in some way
• Transparent– openly and honestly sharing knowledge
• 6 to 9 years’ experience with software testing post BE/B.Tech, ME/M.Tech or MCA
• Must have experience with manual and automation testing of enterprise applications with web user interface and web services
• Must have experience with C#/.NET or java, Rest Api , web UI
• Must have experience with SQL query writing
• Must have experience with Selenium web driver
• Passionate about technology and application development.
• well versed in Functional, Integration and System and performance testing
• Experience/exposure on usage of test management tool

• Manual Testing and able to think testing scenario for Web portal base enterprise application.
• Hands on Automation test experience for web UI , REST API (using Selenium)
• well versed in Functional, Integration and System and performance testing.
• Experience/exposure on usage of test management tool

Good to Have

• Hands on experience on agile process.
• Experience on Scripting language
• Experience on protractor
• Experience on database verification using automation
• Good experience on version control tool
• Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Azure Pipelines