Performance Test Engineer

PrecisionERP/IT is recruiting for Performance Test Engineer for upcoming contract assignment starting beginning of Dec 2025 for initial 6-7 month to start. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: · Develop an overall business case for a platform level Performance Test Program · Define Non- functional/ Performance Test Strategy at a Program level · Authors Performance strategy and test plans · Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks · Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements · Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance · Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites · Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness · Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements · Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution · Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads. · Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures. · Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana (K6), Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health. · Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization. · Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics · Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools - Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance. · Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required · Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications. · Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance Skills: · Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar · Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting · Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net · Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures. · Cloud Performance Testing: Experience using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies. · Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations. · Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus · Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team · Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities · Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance · Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing · Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going · Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools · 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment) · Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools Experience: · 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience · 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment · 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience · 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies · 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure