Senior Performance QA Engineer

QLYS_IN Qualys Security TechServices Private Ltd.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys is seeking an Applications & Systems Performance QA Engineer to join a high-impact team working on Next-generation Platform & Middleware. You will prototype and build tools to benchmark microservices platforms handling massive data, while benchmarking performance across app, API and infrastructure layers.

You will model workloads, plan tests, execute campaigns, and drive bottleneck diagnosis with monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace or Splunk.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Prototype, design and develop tools to benchmark middleware and platform.
• Benchmark performance of microservices and cloud deployments.
• Model workloads, plan tests, and execute performance campaigns.
• Identify bottlenecks across app, DB, API and infra layers and report findings.
• Monitor applications with tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace or Splunk.
• Collaborate with Dev, QA, SRE and Product teams for performance improvements.
• Analyze JVM, memory, CPU, thread dumps and GC behavior to tune performance.
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and maintain automation.
• Provide leadership and ownership in performance testing initiatives.

Skills

JMeter

LoadRunner

Workload modeling

Performance benchmarking

App monitoring

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

API testing

SQL performance

JVM tuning

CI/CD

Debugging

Collaboration

Production monitoring

Leadership

Tools

AppDynamics

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

Job description

Come 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.

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