Senior Performance QA Engineer

Qualys; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys in Pune, India is seeking a Senior Performance QA Engineer to join a fast-growing team responsible for testing the next-generation microservices platform. You will prototype and build benchmarking tools, run large-scale tests, and analyze results to drive performance improvements across services.

You will work with Dev, QA, SRE, and Product teams, use AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk to monitor systems, and investigate bottlenecks in application, database, API, and

Qualifications

• Must-have hands-on experience with performance testing tools (JMeter or LoadRunner).
• Experience planning, executing, and analyzing workload tests.
• Strong knowledge of performance benchmarking, stress, load, and scalability testing.
• Familiar with microservices, containers (Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proficient in SQL and database performance analysis; ability to read JVM/memory/GC dumps and tune performance.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and design benchmarking tools for middleware and platform.
• Plan, execute, and analyze performance tests at scale.
• Identify bottlenecks across application, database, API, and infrastructure layers.
• Monitor performance with AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
• Analyze JVM, memory, CPU, and GC behavior.
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Performance testing

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Analytical thinking

Benchmarking

Monitoring tools

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

API testing

SQL

JVM analysis

CI/CD

Debugging

Team collaboration

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

AppDynamics

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

Job description

Senior Performance QA Engineer page is loaded## Senior Performance QA Engineerlocations: Punetime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R0005273Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!**Job Description**As an Applications & Systems Performance QA Engineer, you will be part of a motivated engineering team. You will be working on the Qualys' \"Next-generation Platform & Middleware\". Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing tools to benchmark middleware and platform. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys' next generation Micro-Services based technology platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.**Role and responsibilities:*** Strong hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar performance tools.* Experience in workload modeling, test planning, execution, and analysis.* Expertise in performance benchmarking, stress, load, endurance, and scalability testing.* Strong knowledge of application monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk.* Experience in identifying bottlenecks across application, database, API, and infrastructure layers.* Good understanding of Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).* Experience with API performance testing and distributed systems.* Strong SQL and database performance analysis skills.* Ability to analyze JVM, memory, CPU, thread dumps, and GC behavior.* Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines.* Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.* Ability to collaborate with Dev, QA, SRE, and Product teams for performance improvements.* Exposure to production monitoring and performance tuning is preferred.* Good communication, ownership, and leadership skills.