Software Engineer- Performance Engineering

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Performance Engineer – Exp 5-10 years

Job Description

Manage End to End Performance Engineering/Testing Delivery for Key Projects

Required skills

• Strong experience inperformance testing and engineering for web, mobile, and hybrid applications.
• Advanced proficiency inJMeter (Groovy, JSR223, Web HTTP, Selenium WebDriver).
• Hands-on scripting usingTypeScript/JavaScript with Playwright.
• Expertise inroot cause analysis of performance issues and providing recommendations through proof-of-concepts.
• Ability to evaluate performance acrossUI, middleware, and backend layers.
• Solid experience withmonitoring and profiling tools such as AppDynamics, Grafana, Kibana, and other profiling utilities.
• Familiarity withAWS Cloud monitoring (CloudWatch) andAzure/AWS key services for performance monitoring and DevOps.
• Client-side performance testing usingLighthouse andSitespeed.
• End-to-end ownership of performance testing projects, includingrequirements gathering, test design, scripting, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• Programming knowledge inSQL and at least one language such asJava or Python.
• Ability to adapt to evolving technologies and tools.

Desired skills

• Experience creatingSitespeed scriptsand conducting Front-end performance analysis.
• Usage of AI and ML for testing, analysis or reporting
• Knowledge ofK6 with Grafana andArtillery for load testing.
• Ability to developin-house tools and enhancements.
• Broader experience inperformance engineering and additional profiling tools.

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