Performance Test Engineer – 6 months contract

Role Overview

Contract Duration

• The contract is six months, with a possible one- to two-month extension.

Location and Schedule

• The role is based in Dubai, UAE and is on-site Monday to Friday.

Joining

• Immediate joiners are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Define performance testing strategies, plans, workload models, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform load, stress, endurance, scalability, spike, volume, and failover testing.
• Validate APIs, web applications, middleware, databases, message queues, and batch-processing systems.
• Analyze throughput, response times, resource utilization, database performance, and bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, infrastructure, and QA teams to resolve performance issues.
• Prepare performance reports, bottleneck analyses, and capacity planning recommendations.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and maintain reusable test assets.

Required Skills and Experience

• 4–6+ years of experience in performance and non-functional testing.
• Hands-on experience with JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, Azure Load Testing, or similar tools.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs, web applications, middleware, message queues, and batch-processing systems.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, Splunk, Azure Monitor, or similar monitoring tools.
• Good understanding of SQL, database performance analysis, workload modeling, and capacity planning.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Pharmaceutical serialization or Track & Trace platform experience.
• Knowledge of GS1, EPCIS, SAP ATTP, TraceLink, or similar solutions.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, and Azure or AWS cloud platforms.
• Experience integrating performance testing into DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.