Lead Performance Engineer with Orchestration

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, and workload models.
• Design and implement performance test strategies for migration validation.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Execute performance tests using LoadRunner and/or BlazeMeter.
• Design workload distribution models based on business usage patterns.
• Conduct performance validation for applications migrating to new data center environments.
• Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysis across application, middleware, infrastructure, and database layers.
• Work with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics and Splunk for root cause analysis.
• Validate scalability, reliability, and resilience in containerized/OpenShift environments.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering experiments to validate system stability under failure conditions.
• Provide performance tuning recommendations to development and infrastructure teams.
• Prepare detailed performance reports and executive summaries.
• Support rapid onboarding of applications where performance testing is being conducted for the first time.

Required Technical Skills

• Performance Engineering
• Strong experience in NFR gathering and performance strategy definition.
• Expertise in performance scripting using: LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis), Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter.
• Strong knowledge of Orchestration of workload modeling and test scenario design.
• Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.
• Monitoring & Analysis
• Hands-on experience with: AppDynamics, Splunk.
• Strong capability in performance diagnostics and bottleneck identification.
• Experience analyzing CPU, memory, thread pools, connection pools, GC logs, and SQL performance.
• Technology Stack Exposure
• Java-based applications, .NET applications, Containerized environments (OpenShift/Kubernetes preferred), Microservices architecture understanding.
• Experience designing and executing controlled failure experiments using Gremlin or Chaos Mesh.
• Experience validating resilience, failover, and recovery scenarios.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in Data Center Migration performance validation.
• Experience testing applications undergoing infrastructure refresh or cloud transformation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD integrated performance testing.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience handling performance testing for applications where no historical baseline exists.