Job Description – Performance Test EngineerJob Title
Performance Test Engineer
Experience
5–8 Years
Employment Type
Full-Time
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in performance testing, performance engineering, and application performance analysis across enterprise-grade applications. You will be responsible for designing, executing, and optimizing performance tests to ensure applications meet scalability, reliability, and availability requirements.
The role requires hands-on experience with industry-leading performance testing tools, monitoring platforms, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications is essential. Candidates with Healthcare domain experience will have an added advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive performance test strategies and test plans.
- Perform Load, Stress, Spike, Soak/Endurance, Volume, Capacity, and Scalability testing.
- Develop and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter and/or LoadRunner.
- Analyze application performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimization strategies.
- Monitor application and infrastructure health using observability and monitoring tools.
- Execute performance testing for distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
- Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues.
- Conduct root cause analysis for production performance incidents and provide recommendations.
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Generate detailed performance reports, dashboards, and improvement recommendations.
- Validate system performance against defined SLAs and business requirements.
- Participate in performance engineering initiatives to improve system scalability and reliability.
Required QualificationsEducation
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 5–8 years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
- Strong experience with enterprise-level performance testing engagements.
- Proven experience testing distributed systems, cloud applications, APIs, and microservices.
- Experience working with Healthcare domain applications is preferred.
Required Technical SkillsPerformance Testing
- Strong expertise in:
- Load Testing
- Stress Testing
- Soak/Endurance Testing
- Spike Testing
- Volume Testing
- Scalability Testing
- Capacity Testing
- Strong understanding of performance engineering methodologies and best practices.
Performance Testing Tools
- Apache JMeter
- LoadRunner Professional / Enterprise
- Performance Center
- BlazeMeter (Good to Have)
Monitoring & Observability
Hands-on experience with:
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Grafana
- AppDynamics (Good to Have)
- Azure Monitor (Good to Have)
Ability to analyze:
- Application performance metrics
- Infrastructure metrics
- Logs
- Distributed tracing
- Business transaction flows
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- Strong understanding of:
- Linux Administration
- Networking Fundamentals
- Load Balancers
- Kubernetes (Preferred)
- Docker & Containers
- Microservices Architecture
Database Skills
Strong SQL experience with:
- SQL Server
- Azure SQL
- Oracle (Preferred)
- MongoDB (Preferred)
Ability to troubleshoot:
- Slow-running queries
- Database locking issues
- Connection pool bottlenecks
- Database performance metrics
Automation & CI/CD
Experience integrating performance testing with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
Scripting knowledge in:
- Java
- JavaScript
- Groovy
- Python (Preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale, mission-critical (Tier-0) applications.
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) environments.
- Experience handling production incident diagnostics and performance troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with AIOps, observability platforms, and alert correlation.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
- Experience with Healthcare applications such as claims processing, member portals, provider systems, and healthcare data platforms.
- Experience implementing proactive performance monitoring and reliability engineering practices.
- Certifications in LoadRunner, Dynatrace, Microsoft Azure, or other cloud technologies are preferred.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (Noida)
