Performance Test Engineer - Software Quality Assurance (5-6 yrs)

Job Title : Performance Test Engineer

Experience : 5+ years

Location : Bangalore

Primary Skills : DevOps , Kubernetes , Linux , Automation testing / Manual testing

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and execute performance tests to evaluate the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability of software applications

- Create and execute load tests to simulate heavy user loads and identify bottlenecks- in application performance.

- Conduct stress tests to assess the system's stability under extreme conditions and- determine its breaking points.

- Develop and maintain automated performance testing scripts and frameworks- using tools like JMeter, Gatling, Playwright or other performance testing tools

- Generate realistic data sets and simulate data conditions to replicate real-world- scenarios for testing purposes.

- Monitor and analyze performance metrics during testing, identify performance- issues, and collaborate with development teams to resolve them.

- Create detailed performance test reports, including analysis and recommendations- for optimizations.

- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to set up and configure test environments- that mimic production conditions.

- Work closely with development, QA, and DevOps teams to integrate performance.

testing into the CI/CD pipeline and ensure continuous performance improvements.

- Maintain documentation for performance testing methodologies, scripts, and- configurations.

Skills and Experience :

Mandatory Skills :

- 5+ years of strong experience in performance testing methodologies and tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, Playwright, LoadRunner)

- Proficiency in scripting and coding (e.g., Java, Python) for test automation

- Knowledge of data simulation techniques and tools

- Familiarity with performance monitoring and profiling tools

- Experience with load balancing, caching, and database performance- optimization.

- Experience in identifying and resolving performance issues in production- environments, including tuning application, server, and database- performance.

- Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools like Chaos Monkey to- test system resilience and fault tolerance.

- Understanding of web protocols, APIs, and network configurations

Good to have skills :

- Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, Kafka, Apache Spark, Redis, Cassandra, Postgres, Kubernetes, Grafana

- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies is a plus.