Performance Test Engineer (Remote)
Performance Testing
Apply a Performance‑First Mindset
Participate in design and refinement discussions to understand performance expectations and risks
Help translate customer experience goals into measurable performance targets
Identify performance risks related to service dependencies, data access, caching, and front-end rendering
Design and Execute Performance Tests
Build and maintain performance, load, stress, and endurance tests
Develop realistic workload models that reflect production usage patterns
Execute tests across APIs, microservices, event flows, and web journeys
Support Performance Engineering Across Services and Web
Create reusable test scripts, templates, and utilities
Contribute to shared performance testing standards and practices
Help teams interpret test results and identify meaningful bottlenecks
What You’ll Contribute
- Performance testing embedded early in development and design
- Reliable, repeatable performance automation across services and UI
- Clear visibility into latency, throughput, and scalability risks
- Actionable performance feedback integrated into CI/CD
- Strong collaboration between QE, Engineering, and SRE
Qualifications
- 8 years of experience in Performance Testing, Quality Engineering, or Software Engineering
- Hands-on experience with performance/load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Neoload, Locust, or similar)
- Experience writing performance tests using JavaScript or similar scripting languages
- Understanding of API testing (REST; GraphQL a plus)
- Experience executing stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution
- Basic understanding of cloud-native architectures (containers, Kubernetes concepts)
- Ability to analyze test results and communicate findings clearly
- Strong collaboration skills in Agile, cross-functional teams
Preferred Experience
- Running performance tests in containerized or Kubernetes environments
- Exposure to Playwright or similar tools for synthetic user journeys
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with React-based front-end applications
- Experience with backend services (e.g., Spring Boot)