Quick overview
SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationPlano, TX, United States
GitAWSGitLab CIGoogle CloudGroovyHTTPHTTPSJMeterJavaJenkinsPythonk6AzureKubernetesJavaScriptCI/CDAzure DevOps
Job description
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer responsible for building and maintaining performance test frameworks, executing various load testing scenarios, identifying system bottlenecks, and providing performance improvement recommendations. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise with k6 (primary skill) and JMeter, along with experience in cloud and CI/CD environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain performance test scripts in JMeter (2nd) and k6 (1st priority)
- Run load, stress, soak, spike, and endurance tests
- Test applications, APIs, and backend services
- Analyze response times, throughput, error rates, CPU, memory, and other metrics
- Identify performance bottlenecks and work with teams to troubleshoot
- Define performance goals and success criteria
- Create performance test reports
- Support benchmarking and capacity planning
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
Required Skills:
- Strong experience in performance testing
- Deep knowledge of JMeter and k6
- JMeter (2nd) and k6 (1st priority)
- K6 – 3 to 5 years of experience
- Experience testing APIs (All API Architecture ) and web applications
- Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, cookies, sessions, headers, and authentication
- Ability to analyze logs, metrics, and monitoring data
- Scripting knowledge in JavaScript, Groovy, or Python
- Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
- Strong communication and analytical skills
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Any cloud would work)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications (EKS etc)
- Total - Min 5 -12 Years of overall experience.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Java or Python development
- Performance testing integration within CI/CD pipelines
- Capacity planning and benchmarking experience
Experience:
- 5 to 12 years of overall IT experience
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