Performance Testing Team Lead

Quess; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Quess seeks an experienced Performance Testing Lead to define strategies, mentor a team of 25 engineers, and drive performance initiatives across applications and infrastructure. You will own KPIs, SLAs, and workloads, while guiding CI/CD integration and collaboration with QA, Development, DevOps, and business teams.

The role requires expertise in multiple tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad) and strong leadership, executive communication, and on-site readiness in Mumbai.

Qualifications

• Define performance testing strategies, NFRs, KPIs, SLAs, and workload models.
• Lead performance automation using LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, or Gatling.
• Review scripts, test coverage, execution plans, and performance results.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive tuning across application, database, middleware, and infra.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, DevOps, Infra, and Business teams.
• Lead and mentor 25 performance engineers.
• Support capacity planning, scalability, cloud, and multi-region testing.
• Drive CI/CD integration, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Present performance risks, findings, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement performance testing strategies and workloads.
• Lead automation efforts across multiple performance testing tools.
• Oversee test execution, results interpretation, and reporting to stakeholders.
• Mentor a team of performance engineers and drive best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality attributes.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Business teams.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

CI/CD awareness

Team collaboration

Communication

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

NeoLoad

BlazeMeter

Gatling

Job description

Mandatory points to be kept in consideration while sourcing profiles :

1. Tricentes Neoload (Mandatory)
2. Loadrunner / Jmeter (Secondary skill)
3. AI exposure (can be preferred)
4. Team Management (4-5 members)
5. Communication must be excellent (onsite exposure will be added advantage)
6. Leadership thought process (Mandatory)
7. Test process understanding (Mandatory)
8. Annual appraisal (Optional)
9. CXX -1 or -2 reporting

Test Performance Deliverable (Mandatory)

• Performance Test Strategy
• Performance Test Estimation
• Performance Test Closure Report
• Performance Result Analysis against Benchmark

JD mentioned below :

• Define performance testing strategies, NFRs, KPIs, SLAs, and workload models.
• Lead performance automation using LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, or Gatling.
• Review scripts, test coverage, execution plans, and performance results.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive tuning across application, database, middleware, and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Business teams.
• Lead and mentor 25 performance engineers.
• Support capacity planning, scalability, cloud, and multi-region performance testing.
• Drive CI/CD integration, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Present performance risks, findings, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Required Skills

• 10–14 years of performance testing/engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in at least 2 performance testing tools.
• Experience with APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch.
• Strong knowledge of databases, web technologies, APIs, networking, and AWS/Azure/GCP.
• SAP performance testing experience is a strong plus.
• Experience with CI/CD, microservices, API performance, and service virtualization.
• Strong team leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Certifications

• Mandatory: 1 performance/testing tool certification + 1 domain certification.
• Preferred: ISTQB or equivalent performance/testing certification.

Preferred Domain Experience

FinTech, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, SAP/ERP, Retail, or Energy.