Senior Performance Tester

D4 Insight; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

D4 Insight is seeking a Senior Performance Tester in Dubai to design, execute, and optimize performance testing across complex banking environments.

The role focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance, with responsibilities spanning test strategy, automated scripting, bottleneck analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in performance testing.
• Experience designing tests for large-scale distributed banking apps.
• Ability to integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design performance testing strategies, plans, and workload models.
• Execute load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability testing.
• Develop and maintain automated performance testing scripts.
• Identify bottlenecks across application, database, middleware, and infrastructure lines.
• Analyze performance metrics and prepare detailed reports.
• Mentor junior performance testing engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Performance Testing

API Performance Testing

SQL & Database Performance

Monitoring & Profiling Tools

CI/CD Integration

Distributed Systems

Tools

Apache JMeter

Job description

Location: Dubai, UAE
Experience: 5+ Years

Role Overview:

We are seeking experienced Senior Performance Tester to design, execute, and optimize enterprise application performance testing strategies. The role focuses on ensuring application scalability, reliability, resilience, and performance across complex distributed banking environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance Engineering

• Design performance testing strategies, plans, and workload models.
• Execute load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability testing.
• Develop and maintain automated performance testing scripts.
• Identify bottlenecks across application, database, middleware, and infrastructure layers.

Analysis & Optimization

• Analyze performance metrics and prepare detailed reports.
• Recommend tuning strategies for application, database, and infrastructure optimization.
• Support capacity planning and scalability assessments.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Database, and Infrastructure teams.
• Review architecture and designs to identify performance risks early.
• Mentor junior performance testing engineers and promote best practices.

Required Skills:

• Apache JMeter
• Performance Engineering
• API Performance Testing
• SQL & Database Performance
• Monitoring & Profiling Tools
• CI/CD Integration
• Distributed Systems

Preferred Skills:

• Dynatrace / AppDynamics / New Relic
• Banking or Enterprise Performance Testing