Sr Test Engineer

 

Responsibilities

Performance Test Planning & Strategy

• Analyze non-functional requirements (NFRs) and define performance test objectives.
• Develop comprehensive performance test strategies, plans, scenarios, and scripts.
• Identify and document performance bottlenecks, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Test Design & Execution

• Develop and execute load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests.
• Create performance test scripts using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, etc.
• Simulate production-scale workloads and analyze application behaviour under various conditions.

Monitoring & Analysis

• Use APM tools (e.g., Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana, Kibana) to monitor:
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Response times
  • Error rates
  • Throughput
  • Database performance
  • Network bottlenecks
• Perform root-cause analysis and provide actionable performance tuning recommendations.

Collaboration

• Work closely with developers, architects, DBAs, system engineers, and DevOps teams.
• Provide performance optimization suggestions related to:
  • Application code
  • Database queries
  • Infrastructure
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Caching strategies

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare detailed performance reports and present findings to stakeholders.
• Document test configurations, results, bottlenecks, and recommended optimizations.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 3 to 8 years of hands-on experience in performance engineering and testing.
• Strong expertise with performance testing tools such as:
  • JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling
• Strong experience with APM and monitoring tools:
  • Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
• Solid understanding of:
  • HTTP/HTTPS, APIs, web services, microservices
  • Databases (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and mentor junior engineers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to converse with various teams (PO, Dev, Release/Deployment, Product Management, Leadership team, etc.)