Performance Test Engineer: Load & Reliability Champion

Vertere Global Solutions, Inc.; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertere Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Performance Tester to join a small, cross-functional quality team embedded with a development squad. You will specialize in speed, scalability, and stability, ensuring applications hold up under real-world load before release.

You will work with QA Lead, Manual/Functional Testers, QA Automation Engineers, and API Testers to bring a performance lens to every release and help catch bottlenecks early rather than in production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of software testing experience, with at least 2 years focused on performance testing.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major load testing tool (JMeter, k6, Gatling, or LoadRunner).
• Scripting skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Groovy, or Scala.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, web architecture, and client-server systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database performance basics.
• Experience reading performance metrics: response time percentiles, throughput, error rates, CPU, memory, and I/O.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with APM and observability tools (Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Grafana).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and distributed or cloud-based load generation.
• Knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience testing microservices, message queues, or mobile backends.
• Basic understanding of front-end performance (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse).
• ISTQB Performance Testing or related certification

Responsibilities

• Gather non-functional requirements (response times, throughput, concurrency, SLAs) from product owners and the QA Lead.
• Design performance test strategies and plans covering load, stress, spike, soak/endurance, and scalability testing.
• Build realistic workload models based on production usage patterns and business scenarios.
• Develop, maintain, and parameterize performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, k6, Gatling, or LoadRunner.
• Prepare and manage test data and test environments for performance runs.
• Execute performance tests and monitor system behavior during runs.
• Analyze results to identify bottlenecks across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers.
• Use monitoring and APM tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog) to correlate metrics and pinpoint root causes.
• Produce clear reports with findings, risks, and recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with the Automation Engineers.

Skills

Load testing experience

HTTP/REST APIs understanding

Scripting: Java/JS/Python

Agile/Scrum

Performance metrics analysis

CI/CD familiarity

Cloud platforms exposure

Containers/Kubernetes

APM tools experience

JMeter/k6/Gatling/LoadRunner

SQL basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or equivalent

ISTQB Performance Testing or related certification

Tools

JMeter

k6

Gatling

LoadRunner

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

New Relic

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

Job description

Vertere Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Performance Tester to join a small, cross-functional quality team embedded with a development squad. You will specialize in speed, scalability, and stability, ensuring applications hold up under real-world load before release.

You will work with QA Lead, Manual/Functional Testers, QA Automation Engineers, and API Testers to bring a performance lens to every release and help catch bottlenecks early rather than in production.