Performance Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and execute performance testing plans to identify bottlenecks in software applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize system performance.
• Analyze test results using tools like Dynatrace, Gatling, JMeter to provide recommendations for improvement.
• Develop automated tests to simulate real-world scenarios and measure application response times.

Required Qualifications 
3+ years of performance engineering or performance testing experience. 
Good expertise in performance testing of: 
Java applications (Java 11+) 
Spring Boot microservices 
RESTful APIs 
Proficiency and experience with Gatling performance testing framework
Familiarity with using other testing frameworks such as: 
Apache JMeter 
k6 
Locust 
Strong ability to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes through profiling, thread analysis, and heap analysis. 
Experience developing performance testing strategies for complex, distributed, multi-tier applications. 
Proven ability to generate comprehensive performance reports and make clear, data-driven recommendations to engineering and business stakeholders. 
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as: 
Grafana 
Prometheus 
Datadog 
New Relic 
OpenTelemetry 
Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar). 
Familiarity with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes (K8s) for deploying and testing containerized applications in performance environments. 
Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and its impact on application performance (ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway). 
Knowledge of publishing, research, or content platform environments and their performance characteristics. 
Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.