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Senior Performance Engineer is a highly skilled professional responsible for ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of critical systems. This role involves applying in-depth knowledge to define and optimize performance testing strategies, improving processes, and developing new techniques. They integrate subject matter expertise, understanding how various components contribute to business objectives. The engineer evaluates complex performance issues, balancing conflicting situations using multiple information sources. Strong analytical skills are crucial for filtering and prioritizing dynamic data. Excellent communication and diplomacy are essential for collaborating with cross-functional teams and leadership. This role also involves informal and formal leadership, coaching junior engineers, and advocating for best practices. The Senior Performance Engineer significantly impacts project size and complexity by influencing design and architectural decisions through expert advice, directly affecting the performance of delivery teams.
Job Responsibility
Lead the design, development, and execution of comprehensive performance test plans and strategies, including automated load, stress, and soak testing, collaborating across product lines and department boundaries to enable shift-left nonfunctional testing within CI/CD pipelines
Understand peak load scenarios and drive test automation with auto-scaling capabilities and detailed reporting, ensuring optimal time-bound assessment windows for efficient integration
Analyze system architecture, application code, and infrastructure components, with a strong understanding of microservice architectures, to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize key measures, and ensure correct service levels
Utilize advanced performance monitoring tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret performance metrics, conducting root cause analysis for incidents, and providing actionable insights for resolution
Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks, tools, and scripts, while also providing expert guidance and recommendations on performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability solutions
Provide detailed reports on all test cycles with prognosis and collaborate across functions (engineering, architecture, DevOps) to offer strategic recommendations
Mentor and guide junior performance engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and actively contribute to bringing in Observability and SRE foundations in close collaboration with relevant functions
Requirements
10-12 years of relevant experience with proficiency in DevOps and APM performance engineering tools like LoadUI, LoadRunner & APM tools AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk or plain ELK Stack
Hands-on Experience in one or more of the following: Java with JMeter, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, XML
Experience on any containerized technology (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
Knowledge of web-application design, web services, and common service frameworks
Advanced knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems
Experience troubleshooting and solving software performance related issues
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment
Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and DevOps practices
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field