Looking For - Non-Functional Test NFT - Lead - 10+ Yrs. - Immediate

Role & responsibilities

Non-Functional Test (NFT) Lead

Exp - 10 Yrs +

Notice period - Immediate joiner

Location - Bang/GGN/Chennai

Preferred candidate profile

Lead the non-functional testing capability across the domain performance, scalability, resilience, and security-related testing shifting NFT left into the delivery lifecycle and using AI to improve efficiency, analysis, and coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the domain NFT strategy: performance, load, stress, scalability, and resilience testing.
• Shift NFT left — embed non-functional validation early rather than at end-of-cycle.
• Leverage AI for test design, results analysis, bottleneck identification, and reporting.
• Define NFT standards, entry/exit criteria, and non-functional acceptance thresholds.
• Lead performance engineering activities, environment/test-data readiness, and tooling.
• Analyse results, identify root causes (e.g. memory, latency, throughput), and drive remediation with engineering teams.
• Provide clear NFT reporting and risk assessment to delivery and senior stakeholders.
• Build and mentor the NFT team; grow non-functional capability across the domain.

Skills & Experience

• Strong background in performance and non-functional testing at scale.
• Hands-on with performance tooling and NFT frameworks; strong results analysis and root-cause skills.
• Experience embedding NFT into CI/CD and shift-left delivery.
• Practical use of AI to accelerate NFT analysis, reporting, or test creation.
• Effective communicator able to translate NFT risk into business terms for leadership.

Success Measures

• Non-functional risks identified earlier in the lifecycle.
• Improved system performance, scalability, and resilience pre-release.
• Efficiency gains in NFT execution and analysis through AI.
• Consistent NFT standards and reporting adopted across teams.