Performance Engineer – Automated Load Testing & CI/CD

EPAM Systems Inc; México; Remote; MXN 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc in Mexico is seeking a Performance Engineer to oversee performance engineering across applications and services. You will verify NFRs, translate requirements into test scenarios, and model workloads for realistic production behavior.

You will run load, stress, endurance, and capacity tests on web apps, APIs, and backend services, build automated scripts, and evaluate HTTP/REST and gRPC performance. Collaboration with dev, DevSecOps, and product teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of performance testing/performance engineering background with web applications and distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise in performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling.
• Familiarity with Locust or comparable load testing tools.
• Solid understanding of load, stress, and spike testing.
• Working knowledge of endurance/soak, scalability, and capacity testing.
• Intermediate English proficiency (B1+ level).

Responsibilities

• Shape the performance testing and performance engineering strategy driven by application architecture, business usage patterns, and NFRs.
• Translate NFRs into measurable performance acceptance criteria, test scenarios, workload models, and thresholds.
• Run load, stress, spike, endurance/soak, scalability, and capacity tests across web apps, APIs, and backend services.
• Create and maintain automated performance test scripts leveraging existing frameworks.
• Evaluate performance of HTTP/REST and gRPC-based APIs and services.
• Design workload models driven by expected user volumes and production-like behavior.
• Embed performance tests into CI/CD pipelines to validate performance continuously.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

Stress testing

API performance

JMeter

k6

Gatling

Locust

CI/CD

English B1+

Tools

JMeter

k6

Gatling

Locust

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc in Mexico is seeking a Performance Engineer to oversee performance engineering across applications and services. You will verify NFRs, translate requirements into test scenarios, and model workloads for realistic production behavior.

You will run load, stress, endurance, and capacity tests on web apps, APIs, and backend services, build automated scripts, and evaluate HTTP/REST and gRPC performance. Collaboration with dev, DevSecOps, and product teams is essential.