Performance Test Engineer

The Performance Test Engineer helps deliver the quality and performance of large scale, cloud based multi-platform software products that includes; web, API and mobile application interfaces. This role involves working closely with Software Developers and Devops engineers that includes leveraging shift-left methods to understand a complex domain and product. The performance engineer focuses on contributing to the development of performance Integration tests and end-to-end tests through open source test frameworks for overall system testing within an Agile environment. You will also be required to design an optimal test environment to simulate real-time scenarios. They will also be responsible to identify the root cause of performance bottleneck and work with respective team to resolve them.

Responsibilities / Duties

Building robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation solutions for regression and performance testing

Create strategy to address how performance testing will be integrated within sprints

Checking for product scalability, reliability, consistency, and performance

Create and implement end to end mobile performance testing strategy

Participating in product design and architectural discussions to understand application performance requirements

Performing high-class debugging

Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes

Qualification / Experience

5 years of experience in Performance Testing

Performance testing experience(5 years) using tools like JMeter, Blazemeter, Locust.io

Mobile apps performance testing using tools like Xcode and Android Studio

Hands-on exposure to quickly identify performance bottlenecks using APM tools(New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace)

Hands on experience working with Kubernetes micro service setup environment

Strong with Java and Python programming skills.

Strong understanding of basic DB tuning, application server tuning and common issues around performance and scalability.

Good knowledge of Linux systems and experience with at least one common endpoint platform (OS/X, Windows, iOS, Android)

Strong communication and problem-solving skills desired

Experience building highly automated test environments using virtual and cloud resources(AWS) is strongly desired

Ability to troubleshoot complex systems

Experience generating test reports from both tools and manually

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field