Your role and responsibilities
- Performance Testing & Analysis: Design, develop, and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling.
- Bottleneck Identification: Analyze performance issues related to CPU, memory, disk I/O, network latency, and application code.
- Optimization & Tuning: Work on code optimizations, database query tuning, JVM tuning, and configuration adjustments to improve performance.
- Monitoring & Profiling: Use APM tools (New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana) to track application performance in real-time.
- Automation & Scripting: Develop test scripts using Python, Java, or Shell scripting for continuous performance validation.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance-related issues.
- Benchmarking & Reporting: Define performance benchmarks and generate reports with detailed insights and recommendations.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 2+ years of experience in Performance Engineering or Performance Testing.
- Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling.
- Strong knowledge of profiling and monitoring tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Experience with APIs, microservices performance testing, and cloud-based performance testing.
- Hands-on expertise in JVM tuning, SQL query optimization, GC analysis, and thread dump analysis.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Groovy, or PowerShell).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, or Azure for performance testing in cloud environments.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for identifying and resolving performance issues.
