Senior Performance Test Engineer / Performance Engineer
Active Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 4 days ago
Quality AssuranceFull-time
We are looking for an experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer / Performance Engineer with 12+ years of experience in performance engineering, application performance monitoring, cloud environments, and distributed/microservices architectures. The ideal candidate will be able to conduct end-to-end performance analysis, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and design and execute various performance tests.
Responsibilities
- Conduct end-to-end performance analysis across applications, databases, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, JFR, and YourKit.
- Perform JVM tuning, analysis, thread analysis, database query optimization, caching, and microservices performance optimization.
- Design and execute Load, Stress, Soak, Endurance, and Scalability testing.
- Develop performance test scripts using JMeter, K6, and Gatling.
- Analyze performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations for scalability, reliability, and user experience.
- Build dashboards and observability solutions using tools such as AppDynamics, Quantum Metric, ELK, and Grafana.
Requirements
- 12+ years of Performance Testing / Performance Engineering experience
- Strong expertise in APM & RUM – AppDynamics, New Relic, Datadog
- Hands-on experience with AWS & Azure
- AWS services: ECS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, API Gateway, ALB
- Strong SQL/NoSQL database performance tuning experience
- Distributed caching and data-access optimization
- Core Web Vitals, browser performance, web rendering & CDN optimization
- Frontend performance analysis using Lighthouse & Chrome DevTools
- Performance automation with JMeter, K6 & Gatling
- Strong observability and dashboarding experience with AppDynamics, Quantum Metric, ELK & Grafana
- Experience with cloud-native, distributed and microservices-based applications
Preferred Skills
- Experience in DevOps practices
- Knowledge of Performance Monitoring tools