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We are seeking a Principal Performance Test Engineer with 12+ years of experience in owning performance, scalability, reliability, and capacity-validation strategy for cloud-native and distributed products. The engineer will architect reusable automation using JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling; integrate tests with CI/CD and observability platforms; analyze system behavior under load; and guide engineering teams toward measurable performance and resilience goals.
We are seeking a Principal Performance Test Engineer with 12+ years of experience in owning performance, scalability, reliability, and capacity-validation strategy for cloud-native and distributed products. The engineer will architect reusable automation using JMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling; integrate tests with CI/CD and observability platforms; analyze system behavior under load; and guide engineering teams toward measurable performance and resilience goals.
Define performance-engineering strategy for load, stress, endurance, spike, scalability, resilience, capacity, and failover testing.
Architect reusable frameworks and workload models using JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or an appropriate combination of tools.
Translate production usage patterns, service-level objectives, transaction volumes, concurrency, and data profiles into realistic test models.
Develop reusable protocol libraries, correlation and parameterization utilities, data generators, environment controls, result parsers, and reporting dashboards.
Integrate performance suites into CI/CD pipelines for baseline, component, scheduled, and release-level execution.
Correlate client-side results with application, infrastructure, container, database, queue, and network telemetry.
Identify bottlenecks, support root-cause analysis, recommend tuning, and verify corrective actions with development, architecture, DevOps, and database teams.
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Experience testing cloud and container platforms, including Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, autoscaling, service discovery, and resource constraints.
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Experience defining service-level indicators, service-level objectives, percentile response-time targets, throughput, error-rate, saturation, and capacity measures.
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