**Role & seniority: ** Performance / Load Testing Engineer (7–10 years)

**Stack/tools: **

Performance test scripting and automation
Virtual user creation & traffic simulation
Monitoring/observability for: app response time, throughput, error rate, CPU/memory, DB performance
Performance dashboards and reporting
Top 3 responsibilities:
- Design and execute performance tests (load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability) with appropriate scenarios/workloads
- Monitor and analyze results to identify bottlenecks across app, DB, network, and servers
- Produce performance reports/recommendations and collaborate on defect triage + resolution
Must-have skills:
- Writing and maintaining performance test scripts
- Building realistic virtual-user traffic models (ramp-up, think time, duration)
- Strong performance analysis and root-cause identification
- Ability to track key metrics (latency/throughput/errors/resource usage/DB health)
- Experience with baseline, capacity, and regression performance testing
Nice-to-haves:
- Working knowledge across development, DBA, infrastructure, and stakeholder environments
- Experience with performance dashboards and test environment/test data management
- Support for release readiness assessments
Location & work type: Not specified in provided text.

Full Description

Job Requirements

Analyze business requirements and prepare performance test strategies and test plans.

Design and develop load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability test scripts.

Create virtual users and simulate real-world user traffic.

Execute performance tests and monitor application response times, throughput, error rates, CPU, memory, and database performance.

Identify performance bottlenecks across application, database, network, and server components.

Analyze test results and prepare performance test reports and recommendations.

Work with developers, database administrators, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to resolve performance issues.

Perform baseline testing, capacity testing, and regression performance testing.

Configure test scenarios, workloads, think times, ramp-up periods, and test durations.

Maintain test scripts, test data, test environments, and performance dashboards.

Participate in defect triage, root-cause analysis, and release readiness assessments.

Work Experience

7-10Years