Performance Test Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Performance Test Engineer with 2–4 years of experience in performance engineering and testing.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in designing, developing, executing, and analyzing performance tests for enterprise applications, APIs, and microservices.

Candidates must possess a strong understanding of AWS cloud technologies, Microservices, Apache Kafka, and distributed System Architecture , as these are fundamental to the role.

The candidate will work closely with Technical Leads, Architects, Development, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to ensure applications meet defined Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), performance benchmarks, and production readiness.

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test plans, scenarios, and scripts based on business and technical Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using Apache JMeter or similar performance testing tools.
• Design and execute API performance tests for RESTful services, microservices, and event-driven applications.
• Prepare test data, automation scripts, monitoring scripts, and reporting utilities.
• Analyze application performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend performance improvements.
• Perform performance validation for applications deployed on AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Analyze distributed application performance involving Microservices , Apache Kafka , and cloud-native architectures.
• Assist in analyzing JVM metrics, Garbage Collection (GC), thread dumps, heap utilization, and overall application performance.
• Prepare detailed performance test reports with observations, analysis, and tuning recommendations.
• Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Harness , or similar DevOps tools.
• Support continuous performance engineering initiatives throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participate in workload modeling, capacity planning, scalability, stress, endurance, and volume testing activities.
• Develop reusable automation utilities and frameworks to improve performance testing efficiency.

• Hands-on experience with Apache JMeter or similar performance testing tools.
• Strong understanding of:
• Load Testing
• Stress Testing

• Scalability Testing
• Volume Testing
• Workload Modeling
• Capacity Planning
• Experience defining, validating, and testing against Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).
• Experience preparing performance test reports, analysis, and recommendations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS-based applications, Microservices, Apache Kafka, API Testing, Java/Python and distributed system architectures is mandatory.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile and DevOps environments.

Securonix provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.