Performance Test Engineer | Testing Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity tests; develop test plans, cases, scenarios, and scripts.
• Establish baselines and objectives, use realistic workloads, and monitor application, server, database, network, and infrastructure performance.
• Analyze resource and performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and perform root-cause analysis with technical teams.
• Collaborate with software, QA, DevOps, systems, database, and product teams; validate performance and conduct API, backend, database, and end-to-end testing.
• Perform regression testing, integrate performance tests into CI/CD where applicable, and maintain test environments, data, monitoring, and infrastructure.
• Produce reports and recommendations, track defects and corrective actions, and support release readiness, capacity planning, and production investigations.
• Maintain testing artifacts and benchmarks, improve testing practices, and research emerging tools and industry practices.

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 load, stress, endurance, spike, scalability, and capacity testing.
• Hands-on experience with a tool such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, BlazeMeter, or a similar platform.
• Experience building automated 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.
• Monitoring-tool familiarity is preferred. Performance profiling and bottleneck identification knowledge is required.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Cloud platforms, CI/CD and DevOps, programming or scripting languages, Agile/Scrum, certifications, and a relevant diploma or bachelor’s degree are advantageous or preferred.
• Strong analysis, problem-solving, communication, attention to detail, and prioritization skills.

What the employer offers

• Opportunity to specialize in performance engineering, software testing, quality assurance, and test automation, with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, cloud, and distributed systems exposure.
• Training and certification opportunities, collaboration with technology teams, and the chance to contribute to scalability, reliability, and optimization projects.
• Potential progression into senior performance testing, performance engineering, QA automation, test leadership, or QA management roles.
• The posting mentions competitive salary, performance incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package; no salary amount or cadence is stated.