Performance Test Engineer | Testing Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design and run performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, capacity, API, backend, database, and end-to-end tests as needed.
• Create test plans, strategies, cases, scenarios, scripts, automated frameworks, benchmarks, baselines, and realistic workload models.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure during testing; analyze resource, database, API, response-time, throughput, and error-rate metrics.
• Find bottlenecks, investigate root causes, and collaborate with software, QA, DevOps, systems, database, and product teams on fixes.
• Retest after changes, support CI/CD integration, and maintain test environments, data, monitoring, and test infrastructure.
• Report results and recommendations, track defects and corrective actions, and support release-readiness decisions.
• Support capacity planning, production investigations, risk assessments, and ongoing improvement of testing methods and tools.

Requirements

• Proven experience in performance testing, software testing, QA engineering, test engineering, or a related technical role.
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, SDLC, STLC, QA processes, defect management, and performance-testing concepts.
• Hands-on performance-testing tool experience, such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, or BlazeMeter.
• Experience developing automated test scripts and frameworks; understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, web applications, client-server architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience testing APIs, databases, backend services, and web applications; good SQL and database-performance knowledge.
• Understand performance metrics and profiling, including CPU, memory, disk, network, latency, throughput, concurrency, and response time.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix and Windows; monitoring and observability tools are preferred.
• Cloud platforms, CI/CD and DevOps tools, scripting/programming languages, and Agile/Scrum/DevOps experience are presented as advantageous or preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, attention-to-detail, and workload-management abilities.

What the employer offers

• Opportunity to specialize in performance engineering, software testing, QA, and test automation, with exposure to enterprise applications, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
• Training and development, including opportunities for recognized testing certifications; career progression may include senior engineering, test lead, or QA management roles.
• Competitive salary, performance incentives, and a benefits package.