Job Description Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing performance testing strategies that ensure our applications meet scalability, reliability, and responsiveness requirements. This role will collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, DevOps teams, and product stakeholders to identify performance bottlenecks and drive continuous improvements across the software development lifecycle.
The ideal candidate has strong expertise in performance engineering, automation, cloud-native technologies, and CI/CD practices, with a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities Performance Testing & Engineering

Design and implement comprehensive performance testing strategies for web, mobile, API, and distributed applications.

Develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, or NeoLoad.

Conduct load, stress, endurance, scalability, spike, and volume testing.

Define performance benchmarks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Analyze performance metrics and identify bottlenecks across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers.

Performance Analysis & Optimization

Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

Perform root cause analysis using monitoring, profiling, and observability tools.

Recommend application, database, and infrastructure optimizations.





Prepare detailed performance reports and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Automation & CI/CD

Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Develop automated performance testing frameworks and reusable components.

Establish performance quality gates for release readiness.

Support shift-left testing initiatives by incorporating performance validation early in the development lifecycle.

Cloud & Modern Architecture Testing

Evaluate performance of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, and containerized platforms.

Validate system scalability and resilience under varying workloads.

Support reliability and fault-tolerance testing initiatives.

Leadership & Collaboration

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development.

Participate in architecture reviews and provide performance engineering guidance.

Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams.

Drive adoption of performance testing best practices and standards.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.





7+ years of software testing experience with at least 4+ years focused on performance testing and engineering.

Strong hands-on experience with: Apache JMeter /LoadRunner /Gatling /k6 /NeoLoad

Experience testing web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

Solid understanding of Performance testing methodologies, Scalability and capacity planning, Workload modeling, Reliability engineering

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning concepts.

Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience within healthcare technology environments.

Knowledge of HL7 and FHIR interoperability standards.

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms:

Dynatrace

Datadog

AppDynamics

Grafana

Prometheus

New Relic

Experience with AI-assisted testing and performance analytics solutions.

Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

Relevant industry certifications.

Every Team Member Exhibits Our Core Values

Team First

Lift Others Up

Share Openly

Set and Crush Goals

Delight the Client

Equal Opportunity Employer
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