Performance Test, Senior Engineer

Master Works; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Adree, a subsidiary of Master Works, seeks a Senior Performance Test Engineer to lead performance testing across enterprise applications, with hands-on expertise in workload modeling and test automation. You will develop tests, create workload models, execute load and endurance tests, analyze results, and drive optimization with cross-functional teams.

This client-site role in Saudi Arabia requires 8+ years in software testing, strong English, and the ability to mentor engineers in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field.
• 8+ years of software testing experience, including 4+ years in performance testing/engineering and prior leadership.
• Hands-on experience in performance-test scripting, workload modeling, and diagnostics.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/REST APIs, web services, databases, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience integrating performance tests with CI/CD pipelines and source control.
• Fluent English; Arabic is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the performance test strategy, standards, and gates.
• Analyze volumes, usage patterns, and nonfunctional requirements to create workload models.
• Plan and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, capacity, and spike tests.
• Design, develop, and maintain performance-test scripts and reusable components.
• Coordinate readiness with DevOps and infrastructure teams.
• Correlate monitoring data to identify bottlenecks and root causes.
• Deliver clear technical recommendations and trend reports.
• Lead defect triage and performance tuning discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Produce test plans, status updates, and executive summaries.

Skills

Performance testing

Test automation

Workload modeling

Scripting

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Job description

Our subsidiary, Adree, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Performance Test Engineer to lead performance testing initiatives across enterprise applications. This role requires hands-on experience in performance engineering, workload modeling, and test automation to deliver high-performing and scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the performance test strategy, roadmap, standards, templates, entry/exit criteria, and performance quality gates.
• Analyze business volumes, usage patterns, architecture, service-level objectives, and nonfunctional requirements to create realistic workload models.
• Plan and execute load, stress, endurance/soak, scalability, capacity, spike, and volume tests for web, mobile back ends, APIs, integrations, and digital services.
• Design, develop, review, and maintain performance-test scripts, scenarios, parameterization, correlation, data preparation, and reusable components.
• Define test-environment, monitoring, data, access, and service-virtualization requirements; coordinate readiness with DevOps and infrastructure teams.
• Correlate client, server, database, network, container, and application-monitoring data to identify bottlenecks and isolate root causes.
• Evaluate response time, throughput, concurrency, error rate, resource utilization, capacity, and SLA compliance; translate results into clear technical recommendations.
• Integrate performance tests and thresholds into delivery pipelines and establish repeatable baseline and trend reporting.
• Lead defect triage and performance tuning discussions with developers, architects, DBAs, SRE, infrastructure, network, and security teams.
• Produce test plans, daily/periodic status updates, executive summaries, detailed reports, risks, and release recommendations.
• Estimate effort, plan assignments, review deliverables, mentor team members, and ensure traceability and audit-ready evidence.
• Deliver knowledge-transfer sessions and practical coaching on performance testing and the implemented operating model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software testing experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on performance testing/engineering and prior technical or team leadership experience.
• Advanced practical experience in performance-test scripting, scenario design, correlation, parameterization, execution control, analysis, and diagnostics.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST/SOAP APIs, web services, authentication, distributed systems, databases, networks, and common performance bottlenecks.
• Proven ability to derive workload models from production or forecast data and define measurable non-functional acceptance criteria.
• Experience integrating performance tests with continuous-delivery pipelines and source control.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, stakeholder-management, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Professional English communication; Arabic is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise test management, service virtualization, container-platform monitoring, observability, and enterprise API gateways.
• Experience with mobile back-end performance, cloud/container platforms, resilience/failure testing, and performance-capacity planning.
• Relevant certifications in performance testing, software testing, Agile, or DevOps.
• Experience in government, regulated, or large-scale digital-service environments.

Job Location

Client Site