Performance Engineering / Performance Testing Lead

Title: Performance Engineering / Performance Testing Lead

Location: Mississauga (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities:

· Gather and analyse business technical system architecture SLA and performance testing requirements

· Define the performance testing strategy scope test approach detailed test plan workload model entry and exit criteria and execution schedule

· Analyze production logs application usage patterns transaction volumes and peakload data to develop productionlike workload models

· Design develop enhance and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner JMeter IBM Rational Performance Tester BlazeMeter and SOAP UI

· Perform load stress scalability endurance volume batchprocessing API and integration performance testing

· Develop scripts for Web HTTPHTML web services RESTSOAP APIs TruClient Citrix SAP GUI Siebel Java Vuser RDP XML and other clientserver protocols

· Configure performance test scenarios execute tests collect metrics analyze results and prepare detailed performance reports

· Monitor application servers web servers middleware databases operating systems Kubernetes environments Kafka platforms and cloud infrastructure during testing

· Analyze response time throughput scalability CPU memory processor queues context switches page faults network latency and database performance

· Perform JVMlevel analysis using logs heap dumps and thread dumps and work with development teams to identify performance issues

· Analyze AWR ADDM SQL execution plans query execution time resource utilization and cachehit ratios to support database tuning

· Use Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog AWS CloudWatch ITRS Geneos and related monitoring tools for bottleneck identification and rootcause analysis

· Conduct multidimensional analysis request tracing hotspot identification and SLAimpact analysis and provide actionable optimization recommendations

· Perform performance testing and monitoring of Kafka microservices Kubernetes pods cloudhosted applications middleware platforms and batch jobs

· Integrate performance tests with CICD pipelines using Jenkins Maven GitHub GitLab and Bitbucket

· Coordinate with business teams architects application development infrastructure database support QA cloud and globally distributed delivery teams

· Lead performance engineering teams provide technical guidance review deliverables and ensure timely delivery with required quality standards

· Support RFP responses solution design effort estimation tool evaluation and performance testing proposals

Mandatory Skills:

· Strong experience in performance testing and performance engineering

· Advanced handson experience with OpenTextHP LoadRunner and Apache JMeter

· Strong scripting experience with Web HTTPHTML TruClient web services REST APIs and SOAP APIs

· Experience in workload modelling production log analysis scenario design test execution and results analysis

· Strong knowledge of application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog or AWS CloudWatch

· Experience with JVM performance analysis including logs heap dumps and thread dumps

· Experience analyzing Oracle AWR and ADDM reports SQL queries execution plans and database performance

· Knowledge of application middleware database operatingsystem network and cloud performance metrics

· Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and providing capacity scalability and tuning recommendations

· Experience working in Agile and CICD delivery environments

· Strong stakeholder management technical leadership analytical documentation and communication skill.