Senior Specialist - Quality Engineering

Job Title Performance Test Lead Performance Engineering

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead Performance Engineering Architect to lead endtoend nonfunctional testing and performance engineering engagements The role involves performance strategy workload modelling test scripting execution monitoring bottleneck analysis capacity assessment rootcause analysis and performance optimization across enterprise cloud microservices payment and banking applications

Key Responsibilities

Gather and analyze business technical system architecture SLA and performance testing requirements

Define the performance testing strategy scope test approach detailed test plan workload model entry and exit criteria and execution schedule

Analyze production logs application usage patterns transaction volumes and peakload data to develop productionlike workload models

Design develop enhance and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner JMeter IBM Rational Performance Tester BlazeMeter and SOAP UI

Perform load stress scalability endurance volume batchprocessing API and integration performance testing

Develop scripts for Web HTTPHTML web services RESTSOAP APIs TruClient Citrix SAP GUI Siebel Java Vuser RDP XML and other clientserver protocols

Configure performance test scenarios execute tests collect metrics analyze results and prepare detailed performance reports

Monitor application servers web servers middleware databases operating systems Kubernetes environments Kafka platforms and cloud infrastructure during testing

Analyze response time throughput scalability CPU memory processor queues context switches page faults network latency and database performance

Perform JVMlevel analysis using GC logs heap dumps and thread dumps and work with development teams to identify performance issues

Analyze AWR ADDM SQL execution plans query execution time resource utilization and cachehit ratios to support database tuning

Use Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog AWS CloudWatch ITRS Geneos and related monitoring tools for bottleneck identification and rootcause analysis

Conduct multidimensional analysis request tracing hotspot identification and SLAimpact analysis and provide actionable optimization recommendations

Perform performance testing and monitoring of Kafka microservices Kubernetes pods cloudhosted applications middleware platforms and batch jobs

Integrate performance tests with CICD pipelines using Jenkins Maven GitHub GitLab and Bitbucket

Coordinate with business teams architects application development infrastructure database support QA cloud and globally distributed delivery teams

Lead performance engineering teams provide technical guidance review deliverables and ensure timely delivery with required quality standards

Support RFP responses solution design effort estimation tool evaluation and performance testing proposals

Mandatory Skills

Strong experience in performance testing and performance engineering

Advanced handson experience with OpenTextHP LoadRunner and Apache JMeter

Strong scripting experience with Web HTTPHTML TruClient web services REST APIs and SOAP APIs

Experience in workload modelling production log analysis scenario design test execution and results analysis

Strong knowledge of application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog or AWS CloudWatch

Experience with JVM performance analysis including GC logs heap dumps and thread dumps

Experience analyzing Oracle AWR and ADDM reports SQL queries execution plans and database performance

Knowledge of application middleware database operatingsystem network and cloud performance metrics

Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and providing capacity scalability and tuning recommendations

Experience working in Agile and CICD delivery environments

Strong stakeholder management technical leadership analytical documentation and communication skills