Principal QA Performance Engineer, AVP

Overview

Work as a senior member of a Performance Engineering scrum team to assess and analyse the performance of Charles River's products, identify potential bottlenecks, and recommend improvements, while supporting customers and other teams.

What you'll do

• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Teams, Architects, and Client Services to define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), performance objectives, scalability goals, and workload models.
• Create comprehensive performance test plans from non-functional requirements.
• Create and maintain performance scripts within performance test frameworks.
• Design scenario and workload models.
• Design and develop end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to execute performance tests and collect artifacts.
• Analyse results to identify potential bottlenecks and provide recommendations.
• Spin up and tear down test environments as and when required.
• Architect end-to-end observability strategies and enhance the existing observability framework leveraging Dynatrace and OEM.
• Deploy, configure and onboard Dynatrace agents.
• Design and develop an end-to-end observability pipeline, and configure dashboards and alerts.
• Analyse infrastructure (on-prem and cloud) and application (code, JVM, database) performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) leveraging Azure monitoring, Dynatrace, and OEM.
• Apply Java and .NET code profiling.
• Interpret AWR/ASH reports, SQL execution plans, thread dumps, heap dumps, GC logs, and observability data.
• Lead performance investigations into production issues and client escalations, providing actionable remediation recommendations.
• Drive performance engineering automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple product teams.
• Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile process under the CRD Scrum methodology, including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

What you'll need

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another technical course of study, or Business with an MIS background.
• 12-15 years of experience in Performance Engineering.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• Extensive experience with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, or equivalent).
• Extensive experience with Dynatrace.
• Extensive experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Extensive experience with the Azure Cloud platform.
• Experience with C#, Java, SQL, Oracle, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Exposure to DevOps skills and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity), Ansible, Terraform, Git/GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing performance benchmarking against web, native/desktop applications, APIs, and batch jobs.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive non-functional and technical test plans.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• MS degree.
• Knowledge of financial services.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.