Senior Performance Test Engineer

Have About the role

This role involves coordinating non-functional requirements collection with business and technical teams, studying performance requirements across applications, and deriving performance testing strategies for impacted systems and interfaces.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate non-functional requirements collection process with business and technical teams; understand system performance requirements and business objectives
• Study non-functional requirements across applications and derive performance testing strategy for impacted systems/applications and interfaces
• Develop scripts and execute performance tests using industry-leading tools such as LoadRunner and JMeter on common protocols such as Web, Web Services, Ajax TruClient, RTE and Winsock
• Design and execute performance test plans, scenarios and scripts related to application performance, capacity and resiliency using LoadRunner or JMeter
• Analyze, review and present performance results with recommendations to delivery teams and business groups
• Use monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, BMC TrueSight and Dynatrace for performance analysis of applications/infrastructure, identifying bottlenecks and providing tuning recommendations
• Perform root cause analysis of performance problems and provide recommendations to resolve them
• Work with Development and DevOps teams to troubleshoot and improve identified performance bottlenecks
• Analyze scalability, throughput and load testing metrics against test servers
• Build performance benchmarks and workloads and conduct performance analysis

About you

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in computer engineering or related field
• Have 7–9 years of experience in Performance Testing / Non Functional Test (NFT)
• Strong understanding of performance testing concepts and methodologies
• Exposure to various types of performance tests including load, stress, endurance, etc.
• Knowledge of Failure Mode Effect Testing (FMET)
• Hands-on experience with industry-standard performance testing tools such as Micro Focus LoadRunner, Performance Center, Apache JMeter and APM tools such as Splunk, Grafana and BMC
• Experience in performance testing using multiple protocols including HTTP/HTTPS, RTE, Web Services (REST, SOAP, JSON)
• Proficiency with LRE/Performance Center environment usage and integration
• Experience working in complex environments with integration to multiple downstream systems and MQs, including Mainframe, Core Banking and AS400 systems
• Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills