Performance engineer

Responsibilities

• The specific responsibilities of a performance engineer managing a large, distributed application built on microservices, spring boot, and Google Cloud may include:
• Gather performance requirements using templates, logs, and monitoring tools.
• Work with Product teams to understand workload models for each system and gather performance Requirements.
• Create performance test plans and scenarios and develop test scripts in JMeter/K6/Gatling to meet the objectives of the performance test plan.
• Setup performance test and performance regression testing guidelines and standards
• Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Perform performance testing like Load Testing, Endurance Testing, Volume Testing, Scalability Testing, Spike Testing, and Stress Testing using Jmeter/Load runner.
• Perform root cause analysis using performance monitoring/Profiling tools and identifying potential system and resources bottlenecks.
• Analyze thread dumps, heap dumps, kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health.
• Experience in Front end application performance tools like Lighthouse, Web page test, Pagespeed Insights, etc
• Collaborating with multiple product teams and help in performance tuning of applications.
• Shift left and first-time quality - Automate Performance testing and integrate it to the existing CI/CD pipelines for a better quality and engineering experience.
• Performance Testing Tools: Performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling.
• Knowledge of Web Technologies: It is essential to have knowledge of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP.
• Strong analytical skills are necessary to interpret data and identify patterns, trends, and issues related to webpage load and performance.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication skills to collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve performance issues.