Performance Test Engineer

Dexian; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent technology services provider is seeking a Performance Engineer in Hyderabad, India. The role requires at least 5 years of experience in performance engineering, including expertise in analysis, testing, and tuning of software applications. Candidates should be proficient in Agile methodologies and familiar with tools such as JMeter, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics. The position involves supporting performance testing, analyzing application stacks, and developing automation solutions to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations using Jenkins or similar tool.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end performance testing for projects using Agile methodologies.
• Analyze application stack to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Prepare load simulators and automation tools for testing.

Skills

Performance engineering (analysis, testing, tuning)

Development of n-tier, J2EE software applications

Unix or Linux environments

Performance analysis of distributed platforms

Statistical and analytical modeling

Load testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)

Scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

CloudWatch

JMeter

LoadRunner

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support end to end performance testing for projects independently, using Agile methodologies
• Assist in the development of estimates, resource requirements, and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects
• Review business use cases, user stories, and other functional and non-functional requirements to identify key performance indicators
• Review design documents, infrastructure implementations, and code to identify potential performance bottlenecks and defects
• Prepare load simulators, monitoring tools, and other automation to sustainably test the products against specifications.
• Develop custom tools and load simulators and integrate them in CICD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket.
• Analyze full stack of the application (web server, application server, database, etc.), identify performance bottlenecks (at application and OS layers) and support performance tuning exercises.
• Participate in defect tracking and reporting.
• Build, publish, and support reusable components to automate repeatable, manual test activities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

• Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest)
• Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including:
• Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Time series analysis and forecasting
• Key Performance and volume metrics relationship modeling
• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools – TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle
• Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• Experience in the financial services industry is good to have