Role: Performance Test Lead / Senior Performance Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

Work Model: Hybrid

Experience: 4 6 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

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We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead / Senior Performance Engineer with strong hands‑on expertise in Apache JMeter and LoadRunner. The candidate will lead the performance testing lifecycle, develop complex workload models, identify application bottlenecks, and work closely with development and DevOps teams to ensure application scalability, stability, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and execute performance testing strategies, plans, workload models, and test scenarios.
- Perform Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance, and Scalability Testing.
- Develop and maintain advanced, reusable JMeter performance test scripts.
- Create and execute performance tests using LoadRunner / LoadRunner Enterprise.
- Analyze test results, identify performance bottlenecks, and provide optimization recommendations.
- Monitor application, database, infrastructure, and network performance during test execution.
- Define performance entry/exit criteria, SLAs, workload models, and performance baselines.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot performance issues.




- Lead performance test execution and coordinate with junior performance engineers.
- Prepare performance test reports, dashboards, defect reports, and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Support performance testing integration with CI/CD and DevOps pipelines where required.

Required Skills:

- 4 6 years of experience in Performance Testing / Performance Engineering.
- Robust hands‑on experience with Apache JMeter.
- Strong experience with LoadRunner / LoadRunner Enterprise.
- Experience developing complex performance test scripts and workload models.
- Strong knowledge of Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance, and Scalability Testing.
- Experience with performance monitoring, analysis, and bottleneck identification.
- Understanding of application, database, network, and infrastructure performance.
- Experience defining SLAs, performance baselines, and acceptance criteria.
- Good understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, web applications, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile teams.
- Strong leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

CA$55,000.00 yearly

CA$55,000 base plus performance incentives.

CA$200,000.00 yearly

CA$3,000.00–CA$6,000.00 monthly

📌 Senior Manager Climate Performance (Toronto)
🏢 Mindlance
📍 Toronto