Performance Testing - Experience Cloud Performance testing

VML South Africa; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

VML Enterprise Solutions is seeking an experienced Performance Testing Consultant to optimize Adobe Experience Cloud implementations, including AEM, EDS, Commerce, Workfront, and Campaign. You will design and execute tests, analyze bottlenecks, and collaborate with DevOps to ensure scalable digital experiences.

The role emphasizes performance engineering, observability, and CI/CD integration, with the aim of delivering resilient, high-performing marketing platforms for global clients.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years of experience in Performance Testing, Performance Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AEM, Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Adobe Commerce, Adobe Workfront, and/or Adobe Campaign.
• Strong expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, microservices, cloud-native applications, and content delivery architectures.
• Strong understanding of CDN behavior, caching, Core Web Vitals, and front-end performance optimization.
• Experience analyzing application logs, JVM metrics, thread dumps, heap dumps, database performance, and infrastructure resource utilization.
• Knowledge of Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Cloud architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and performance test automation frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute performance tests for Adobe Experience Cloud implementations.
• Assess performance of AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and Headless environments.
• Validate Edge Delivery Services (EDS) performance and caching strategies.
• Evaluate Adobe Commerce storefront performance under peak workloads.
• Test Workfront workflows, integrations, and reporting for scalability.
• Validate Campaign batch processing, audience segmentation, and delivery workloads.
• Analyze performance metrics and identify bottlenecks for optimization.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and platform teams to resolve issues.
• Monitor system behavior using observability tools and dashboards.
• Prepare performance baselines, SLIs/SLOs, and capacity plans.

Skills

Adobe Experience Cloud

Performance Testing

CI/CD

API testing

Front-end performance

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

Gatling

Jenkins

Job description

Who We Are

VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy’s. In 2026, VML was named Campaign’s Global Network of the Year and ranked #2 Creative Network of the Year at Cannes Lions. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.

VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Performance Testing Consultant with expertise in Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Adobe Commerce, Adobe Workfront, and Adobe Campaign. The ideal candidate will be responsible for evaluating and optimizing the scalability, responsiveness, reliability, and overall performance of digital experiences and marketing platforms, ensuring seamless customer engagement and business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, scalability, endurance, and capacity tests for Adobe Experience Cloud implementations.
• Assess performance of AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and Headless implementations, including authoring and publishing environments.
• Validate Edge Delivery Services (EDS) performance, content delivery efficiency, caching strategies, Core Web Vitals, and page load behavior under varying traffic conditions.
• Evaluate Adobe Commerce storefront, catalog, search, checkout, pricing, promotions, and order-processing performance under peak workloads.
• Test Adobe Workfront workflows, project management operations, integrations, reporting, and collaboration features for scalability and responsiveness.
• Validate Adobe Campaign batch processing, audience segmentation, campaign execution, message delivery, workflow orchestration, and reporting workloads.
• Analyze application and infrastructure performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.
• Collaborate with solution architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and Adobe platform teams to resolve performance issues.
• Monitor system behavior using observability and performance monitoring tools.
• Develop performance baselines, service-level objectives (SLOs), capacity planning recommendations, and optimization strategies.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support shift-left performance engineering practices.
• Prepare detailed performance test plans, execution reports, dashboards, and executive summaries.

Required Skills

• 5 to 8+ years of experience in Performance Testing, Performance Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Adobe Commerce, Adobe Workfront, and/or Adobe Campaign.
• Strong expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, microservices, cloud-native applications, and content delivery architectures.
• Strong understanding of CDN behavior, caching mechanisms, Core Web Vitals, and front-end performance optimization.
• Experience analyzing application logs, JVM metrics, thread dumps, heap dumps, database performance, and infrastructure resource utilization.
• Knowledge of Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Cloud architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and performance test automation frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud implementations and enterprise-scale digital transformation programs.
• Familiarity with AEM Dispatcher/CDN configurations, Edge Delivery Services architecture, and Adobe Commerce cloud environments.
• Experience with Adobe Campaign workflows, delivery infrastructure, and campaign execution performance testing.
• Understanding of Workfront APIs, integrations, and enterprise workflow performance considerations.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.
• Adobe certifications in AEM, Adobe Commerce, Workfront, or related Experience Cloud products are a plus.

What we can offer you

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.

We lead withHeart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.We empower yourBrainsfor innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.And we championCourage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.