Performance Test Engineer

LTM; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

LTM in Chennai seeks an experienced Performance Testing lead to drive end-to-end non-functional testing. You will analyze results, identify bottlenecks, and guide a team of 3–4 testers. Proficiency in tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad and monitoring platforms is essential.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, craft test plans, and present findings. Strong communication and Agile experience are required to succeed in this role.

Qualifications

• Must have minimum 5 years of experience in Performance Testing and knowledge in Performance Engineering.
• Ability to gather requirements from stakeholders for the project or application.
• Develop a detailed Performance Test Plan and walkthrough with stakeholders.
• Experience scripting and executing with two or more tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad).
• Experience with at least one Application Monitoring Tool (Dynatrace/NewRelic/AppDynamics).
• Coordinate with stakeholders to identify bottlenecks across tiers and components.
• Strong oral and written communication; ability to lead a 3–4 member team.
• Review scripts and follow best practices; analyze crashes, memory leaks, etc.
• Prepare project reports (WSR/MMR/QBR) as required.
• Knowledge of CI/CD (DevOps/Jenkins) and AI; experience in other non-functional testing like chaos engineering.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with stakeholders to identify performance bottlenecks across all tiers and layers.
• Develop and walkthrough a detailed Performance Test Plan with project teams.
• Lead a small team (3–4 members) and review scripts for quality and efficiency.
• Scripting and execution using LoadRunner, JMeter or NeoLoad, among others.
• Monitor applications with tools like Dynatrace/NewRelic/AppDynamics and identify root causes.
• Document NFRs, reports and performance metrics for client reviews.
• Collaborate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to test estimation and workload modeling.
• Ensure CI/CD integration with Jenkins and AI-assisted testing approaches.

Skills

Performance Testing

Performance Engineering

Requirements gathering

Test planning

Team leadership

Scripting & execution

Agile processes

Communication

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

NeoLoad

K6

Gatling

Dynatrace

NewRelic

AppDynamics

OpenView

Sitescope

Wily

Job description

Talents who have experience in AI assist / AI integration / AI automate / AI tools - Copilot, Claude, Github AI or any are most preferred.

If you have expereience on the same please mention it in the resume.

Mandatory Skills : Performance Testing -Analysis + AI (Analysing test Results, Server Stats,Bottlenecks, tuning and recommendations)

Good to Have Skills : Jmeter, Blazemeter -Performance Testing, LoadRunner-Performance Testing, Neoload -Performance Testing, Performance Testing -Emerging Tools (K6,Gatling), Performance Testing -Execution (Baseline, Load, Endurance, Stress, Volume,Network, DR, Failover, Spike, Saas based/COTS), Performance Testing -NFR Gathering (Log Analyis, User Interview, Reverse Engineering, NFR Documentation), Performance Testing -Performance Engineering, Performance Testing -Planning (Strategy, Approach, Estimation, Workload Modeling, Risk and Issue Management)

Key Skills

Should have minimum 5 years of experience in Performance Testing and also good knowledge in Performance Engineering

Should be able to gather requirements that are required for the project or application by working with various stake holders

Should be able to develop Detail Performance Test Plan and be able to give walkthrough to stake holders

Should have good experience in scripting and execution skills using at least two performance testing tool LoadRunner / Jmeter / NeoLoad or anyother

Should have worked in at least one of the Application Monitoring Tool

Dynatrace / NewRelic / Appdynamics or anyother

Coordinate with all stakeholders' teams to identify performance bottlenecks across all tiers components layers

Should be good in Oral and Written communication and also able to lead a team of 3 to 4 members

Should be able to review scripts developed by team member and have

experience in following best practice

Analysis and resolution of critical and complex application issues like crashes, hung threads memory leaks etc

Should be able to prepare reports that are required with in project like WSR MMR QBR

Should have good knowledge in CICD pipeline tools like DevOps Jenkins and also in AI

Should have worked in one other Non Functional Testing apart from

Performance Testing like Chaos Engineering Batch Performance Failover

testing etc

Should have performance monitoring experience across Windows and UNIX platforms with OpenView Sitescope Wily or similar tools

Ability to understand and analyze AWR reports or similar report that helps to understand the root cause of the Performance Issues

Must be able to work both independently and within a group

Should have sounds knowledge in Agile process and terminologies