Senior Software Engineer-Performance Test Engineer

Nestdigital; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestdigital seeks a Senior Software Engineer-Performance Test Engineer in Bengaluru with 8+ years of Experience to drive end-to-end performance testing across banking-grade applications. You will define performance criteria, execute load tests, and collaborate with Dev and Infra teams to optimize systems for reliability and scale.

Strong expertise in JMeter, APM tools, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and CI/CD pipelines is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strong performance engineering experience in n-tier applications.
• Banking domain knowledge with hands-on experience on banking applications.
• Experience with on-prem to cloud migration/implementation (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with large cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GDP) and cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Knowledge of Dev-Ops with GitLab, Jenkins, APM tools, code profilers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD quality gates for performance testing.
• Understanding of chaos testing and cloud-native testing tools.
• Knowledge of mobile app performance testing principles (Android/iOS).
• Performance profiling, tuning, and using APM tools like App Dynamics, CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Derive performance requirements for complex multi-tier apps.
• Identify performance issues early in development lifecycle.
• Monitor and analyze performance metrics across Python/Java/.Net apps.
• Create dashboards and insights using AppDynamics, CloudWatch, and other tools.
• Execute load tests with JMeter/LoadRunner and report findings.
• Collaborate with Project, Design, Build, and Infra teams to mitigate risks.

Skills

Performance Testing

JMeter

APM

CloudWatch

Jenkins

GitLab

LoadRunner

Chaos Monkey

AppDynamics

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

LoadRunner

Selenium

AppDynamics

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Chaos Monkey

Job description

Senior Software Engineer-Performance Test Engineer

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Posted on Sep 11, 2026

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Minimum Required Experience : 8 years

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Skills

Apm

Performance Testing

Jmeter

CloudWatch

Description

JD -Performance Test Engineer

Description:

8+ years of strong performance engineering experience

Technical Abilities:

• Derive performance requirements for complex n-tier applications.
• Strong banking domain knowledge & hands-on experience on banking applications
• Good understanding of on-prem to cloud migration/implementation such as AWS, AZURE
• Experience working with large cloud service providers (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.) like Azure, AWS, GDP etc.
• Comprehensive knowledge & experience in Dev-Ops using Gitlab, LRE, Jenkins, APM tools, code profilers etc
• Basic skillset on setting-up the quality gates in CICD for performance testing
• Understanding of Chaos testing/experience working with testing tools like chaos monkey and other cloud native tools
• Experience with Knowledge of testing mobile apps (android/iOS) design principles, patterns and best practices
• Performance Engineering, profiling and tuning experience, including experience working with APM tools such App dynamics, Cloud-Watch, etc
• Deep understanding of web page performance analysis – Understanding of java scripts, Angular JS, CSS, third party components etc.,
• Flag down potential performance issues at the start of the development stage.
• Being able to monitor and understand different monitoring parameters for applications developed in Python, Java and .Net.
• Must be able to define the performance metrics based on objective and use cases identified & Should design and deliver report to answer questions based on objectives defined
• Drive initiatives to create new dashboards & deep insights from multiple tools such as AppDynamics to provide leadership team daily trend view on page performance.
• Extensive knowledge on conducting deep dive analysis to quickly find out performance & resiliency issues with multiple tools
• Able to understand the architecture and design patterns to build performance/ resiliency engineering strategy to discover the issues.
• Deep understanding of performance testing and Ability to create scripts and execute tests with load testing tools (Loadrunner, JMeter)
• Ability to create performance test script from automation scripts (such as selenium)

Management Experience:

• Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders (Project manager, Design team, Build team, Infrastructure team) during various phases of performance test life cycle.
• Ability to identify delivery risks and propose mitigation plan to ensure delivery schedule is met within budget.
• Highlight delivery risks to Management in timely and accurate manner.
• Create and present periodic dashboards to higher management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill

Able to strengthen team spirit, bring in technical capabilities, be proactive, able to drive shift-left & shift-right initiatives and guide team to add value that client could see on day-to-day basis

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