Senior Performance Test Engineer-Remote (AWS Microservices)

AIDA Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AIDA Recruitment is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to own performance testing across a modern AWS-based microservices platform. You will design and implement scalable testing strategies that achieve reproducible benchmarks and guide release readiness.

Reporting to Quality Engineering leadership, you will work with Platform Engineering, DevX, SDET, and product teams in a remote, Ukraine-based environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on in performance testing for cloud-native microservices SaaS.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, Gatling, Locust, or JMeter.
• Hands-on observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or CloudWatch.
• Strong knowledge of AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, ECS, EKS.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience; Python or similar scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop performance test suites for AWS-based microservices.
• Define KPIs, baselines, and thresholds for release readiness.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines with cross-team collaboration.
• Execute load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Analyze logs and metrics to identify bottlenecks.
• Establish baselines for microservices and legacy apps for long-term benchmarking.
• Investigate production-like issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Provide optimization recommendations for architecture, APIs, databases, and infra.
• Document testing results and trends for stakeholders.

Skills

Performance testing

Cloud-native microservices

Python scripting

CI/CD integration

Observability tooling

AWS services

Docker & Kubernetes

English communication

Tools

k6

Gatling

Locust

JMeter

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK Stack

AWS CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AIDA Recruitment is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to own performance testing across a modern AWS-based microservices platform. You will design and implement scalable testing strategies that achieve reproducible benchmarks and guide release readiness.

Reporting to Quality Engineering leadership, you will work with Platform Engineering, DevX, SDET, and product teams in a remote, Ukraine-based environment.