Performance Test Lead – IoT & SCADA Platform

Private Advertiser; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,100,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser in Metro Manila is seeking a senior performance test engineer to design and own the testing strategy for a cloud-enabled IoT/SCADA platform. You will configure perf environments mirroring on-prem and Azure, implement load, stress, and soak tests, and report results to engineering and client stakeholders to ensure scale, latency, and reliability requirements.

You will design test models for ingestion, polling, dashboards, and alerting, and integrate tests into Azure DevOps

Qualifications

• 5+ years in performance testing.
• Hands-on with JMeter, k6, Locust, or Gatling.
• Experience testing cloud-native and hybrid systems, ideally Azure.
• Understanding of IoT and SCADA systems: device telemetry, MQTT/OPC UA, time-series data.
• Strong data analysis: logs, metrics, traces; reporting to stakeholders.
• Excellent reporting: present findings to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design performance strategy with scope, SLAs, KPIs for IoT ingestion, polling, dashboards and reporting.
• Configure perf test environments mirroring on-prem and Azure production.
• Implement tests with scripts and scenarios; simulate 10k+ device connections and MQTT/OPC UA traffic.
• Integrate perf tests into CI/CD pipelines and run automated regressions on release.
• Monitor and analyze with Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana to track latency and bottlenecks.
• Report findings and drive platform tuning with engineering for optimal performance.

Skills

Performance testing

Test scripting

JMeter

k6

Locust

Gatling

Azure

Cloud testing

Education

ISTQB Performance Testing

Azure Administrator / Architect

Tools

JMeter

Locust

k6

Gatling

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Grafana

Job description

About Us:

Our proprietary IoT & SCADA platform is used by enterprise clients to monitor industrial sensors of all types and run factory operations end-to-end. The platform runs on-prem and on Microsoft Azure with Azure IoT Hub as the core ingestion layer. We process high-volume time-series data from PLCs, gateways, and 1000s of sensors.

Purpose of the Role:

We need someone who can design and own the performance testing strategy for the entire platform. You'll configure test environments, implement load/stress/soak tests, and report results to both engineering and client stakeholders to ensure the platform meets scale, latency, and reliability requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Design performance strategy: Define approach, test scope, SLAs, KPIs, and test models for IoT ingestion, SCADA polling, real-time dashboards, alerting, and reporting.
• Configure test environments: Stand up perf test beds that mirror on-prem and Azure production. Provision VMs, containers, Azure resources, and simulate device traffic.
• Implement tests: Build scripts and scenarios using JMeter, Locust, k6, or similar. Simulate 10k+ device connections, MQTT/OPC UA traffic, high-frequency sensor data, and SCADA HMI load.
• Integrate with CI/CD: Embed perf tests into Azure DevOps pipelines. Run automated regression perf tests on each release.
• Monitor & analyze: Use Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Grafana to track CPU, memory, IoT Hub throttling, DB latency, and end-to-end latency.
• Report & drive improvements: Create clear reports with bottlenecks, capacity recommendations, and pass/fail against SLAs. Work with engineering to tune platform, DB, and cloud config.
• Support UAT and go-lives: Run perf validation before major releases and client deployments. Support hypercare.
• Best practices: Define performance testing standards, templates, and tooling for the team.

Must-haves:

• 5+ years in performance testing. Proven experience designing strategy, not just executing scripts.
• Hands-on with JMeter, k6, Locust, or Gatling. Can write and maintain test scripts.
• Experience testing cloud-native and hybrid systems, ideally Azure, Azure IoT Hub, and time-series databases.
• Understanding of IoT and SCADA systems: device telemetry, MQTT, OPC UA, high-cardinality time-series data, and real-time requirements.
• Strong data analysis skills. Can interpret logs, metrics, and traces to find root causes.
• Excellent reporting skills. Can present technical findings to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Azure IoT Hub, Azure Data Explorer or similar.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform for test environment setup.
• Familiarity with OT networks, PLCs, and industrial protocols.
• Certifications: ISTQB Performance Testing, Azure Administrator/Architect.

Key Challenges in This Role:

Simulating realistic IoT device load at scale Testing SCADA real-time constraints without impacting live OT systems Balancing test coverage with cost in Azure environments