Senior Performance Engineer

Overview

Senior Performance Engineer role optimizing performance and reliability of software systems within Global IT Supply Chain Solutions, focusing on Vendor collaboration and Transport Management Applications.

What you'll do

• Design and execute performance test strategies using NeoLoad and work with Product Management on NFR requirement gathering.
• Develop and maintain performance testing scripts on the in-house PTAF (Performance Test Automation framework).
• Carry out performance testing on multiple products simultaneously.
• Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure performance best practices.
• Utilize monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics, AppInsights) to track system health and performance metrics.
• Generate comprehensive performance analysis reports and present findings.
• Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing to ensure system reliability.
• Help upskill other engineers on the team on performance scripting and testing.
• Stay updated with the latest performance testing methodologies and tools.

What you'll need

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in performance engineering or related roles.
• Strong expertise in NeoLoad for load and stress testing.
• Experience with performance monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace.
• Proficiency in performance tuning and troubleshooting complex systems end to end.
• Strong understanding of API performance testing and testing inputs and endpoints using REST API.
• Solid understanding of system architectures, cloud environments, databases and integrations.
• Strong experience writing database queries (SQL).
• Efficient in creating bulk datasets required for load testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, great presentation skills and teamwork abilities.
• Experience working in Agile environment or teams (SAFe Agile) and familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.
• Good understanding of how to use Git / GitHub and push/merge code into a repository.
• Knowledge of how to utilize parallel execution for more efficient ways of working.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Shell, JavaScript and BDD).
• Knowledge of containerized environments.
• Knowledge of BDD automation testing.
• Knowledge of using CI/CD (Jenkins and Azure) to execute performance regression.
• Manual or automation testing experience, ISTQB qualifications or similar.
• Zephyr, Selenium, Maven, TOSCA, Oracle, Docker and Kubernetes.

Details

• Location: APAC Home Office, Hyderabad, IN (Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road).