Remote Performance QA Engineer — Scale & Optimize

Naukri Mitra; United States; Remote; USD 97,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time-off policy

Flexible hours

Learning stipends

Wellness reimbursements

Remote office setup

Job summary

Naukai Mitra is seeking a Remote Performance QA Engineer to push software systems toward peak performance. You will design advanced performance tests, analyze metrics, and collaborate with DevOps and developers to optimize speed and stability for users worldwide.

In this role you’ll build dashboards, report findings creatively, and advocate best practices in a remote-first culture that values experimentation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Performance QA Engineer or SDET focusing on performance.
• Deep knowledge of test automation frameworks and scripting performance test cases.
• Comfortable with cloud environments and container orchestration platforms.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate metrics into action.
• Exceptional communicator — you make performance reports feel like detective stories.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute sophisticated performance test plans beyond basic load testing, simulate real user scenarios across geographies and devices.
• Identify memory leaks, database bottlenecks, and latency issues with surgical precision.
• Deliver performance benchmarks, capacity modeling, and scalability assessments with a storytelling flair.
• Partner closely with DevOps, front-end developers, and backend architects to tune services for speed and stability.

Skills

Performance QA

SDET

Cloud environments

Container orchestration

Analytical skills

Communication

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

k6

Grafana

New Relic

Prometheus

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Python

Bash

JavaScript

Job description

Naukai Mitra is seeking a Remote Performance QA Engineer to push software systems toward peak performance. You will design advanced performance tests, analyze metrics, and collaborate with DevOps and developers to optimize speed and stability for users worldwide.

In this role you’ll build dashboards, report findings creatively, and advocate best practices in a remote-first culture that values experimentation and continuous improvement.