Performance Test Lead

About the role

Ensure business-critical applications and platforms meet defined performance, reliability, and capacity requirements before production releases through effective performance testing and analysis. Drive the adoption of performance best practices across the software delivery lifecycle to proactively identify bottlenecks and address them to improve end-user experience.

Key responsibilities

• Take over existing performance test scripts from vendors
• Schedule, design and drive performance tests and performance test strategy and execution for assigned applications and platforms
• Define and maintain realistic workload models and performance baselines
• Identify, analyse, and communicate performance risks, bottlenecks, and capacity constraints, translated into reports for stakeholders
• Improve test reliability and time taken for performance test runs
• Improve performance of applications in terms of user experience and satisfaction
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain load, stress, endurance, spike, and capacity tests
• Create and maintain reusable performance test frameworks and automated test assets
• Partner with developers, architects, infrastructure, and product teams to resolve performance bottlenecks
• Produce clear performance assessment reports, risk evaluations, and release recommendations

About you

• Successfully led performance test runs for multiple enterprise-scale software releases with demonstrable performance improvements
• Identified and helped resolve critical production or pre-production bottlenecks that improved application response times, throughput, or stability
• Designed performance test plans for web and mobile applications, with clear ability to explain environmental considerations
• Designed and implemented automated performance testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Established performance baselines, KPIs, and testing standards adopted by engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering teams using data-driven recommendations and technical analysis