Performance Architect – QA

Avaya; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaya in Pune, India seeks a Senior Performance Architect – QA to lead hands‑on performance engineering for core products and enterprise platforms. You will shape performance strategy and partner with Architecture, SRE, DevOps, and R&D teams to deliver scalable, reliable, low‑latency software.

This is a senior IC role with technical ownership and no people management. You will apply expertise in chaos engineering, observability, and cloud‑native patterns to build performance tools, drive CI/CD

Qualifications

• 15+ years in QA, performance engineering, or related fields.
• Experience in Core Product, Core Engineering, or R&D organizations.
• Hands-on with commercial products, enterprise platforms, or distributed systems.
• Expertise in performance architecture, scalability, resilience, and distributed systems.
• Leadership in chaos and resilience engineering incl. fault injection and self-healing.
• Strong knowledge of microservices and multi-tenant cloud‑native patterns.
• Experience with observability, APM, tracing, and DB performance tuning.
• Programming in Java, Python, C#, or Go; CI/CD integration.
• Hands-on with Azure and Kubernetes, autoscaling and HA.

Responsibilities

• Shape performance strategy and drive architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, SRE, DevOps, and R&D teams.
• Own technical outcomes with no people management.
• Develop performance simulators, workload generators, and fault-injection tools.
• Ensure low latency, high scalability, and reliability of critical platforms.

Skills

Performance engineering

QA emphasis

Distributed systems

Chaos engineering

Observability

CI/CD integration

Cloud-native

Programming: Java

Programming: Python

Programming: Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE

Master’s degree in CS/SE

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

AKS

Job description

We are seeking a Performance Architect – QA to join our R&D team as a senior individual contributor. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on performance engineering expert with experience in core products, platforms, or large‑scale enterprise software.

You will shape performance strategy and partner with Product Engineering, Architecture, SRE, DevOps, and R&D teams to deliver highly scalable, reliable, and low‑latency products. This role involves technical ownership and influence, with no people‑management responsibilities.

Required experience and qualifications -

• 15+ years in QA, performance engineering, software engineering, automation, and performance architecture.
• Mandatory experience in a Core Product, Core Engineering, or R&D organization.
• Proven hands‑on experience with commercial products, enterprise platforms, SaaS, or distributed systems.
• Expertise in performance architecture, scalability, resilience, and distributed systems.
• Experience in leading chaos and resilience engineering initiatives, including fault injection, dependency failures, traffic surges, failover validation, and self‑healing scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, event‑driven architectures, cloud‑native patterns, and multi‑tenant platforms.
• Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or related technologies.
• Building performance simulators, workload generators, service virtualization, or fault‑injection tools.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and preferably AKS, including autoscaling and high availability.
• Experience with K6, JMeter, Gatling, or custom performance frameworks.
• Programming experience in Java, Python, C#, Go, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of observability, APM, distributed tracing, logging, and database performance tuning.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Why Join?

• Senior IC role with significant technical ownership.
• Opportunity to influence product architecture and quality across Core Engineering and R&D.
• Hands‑on work solving complex performance, scalability, and resilience challenges.
• High‑impact role focused on technical depth, engineering judgment, and cross‑functional influence.

This role is a strong fit if you -

• Have worked in a product engineering or R&D environment and understand the complete product lifecycle.
• Can influence product and architecture decisions using data‑driven performance insights.
• Have designed performance strategies for complex, distributed, multi‑tenant systems.
• Are comfortable coding, debugging, analyzing production behavior, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Can balance hands‑on technical contribution with architecture ownership and cross‑functional leadership.