Performance Test Engineer

Job Title

Performance Test Engineer

Location

Richardson, TX 75082 & Temple Terrace, FL 33637

Work Mode – Client -Hybrid (3 days week)

Required skills

Seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer with QA Automation expertise and strong Telecom domain knowledge to validate the scalability, reliability, and performance of enterprise telecom applications and network platforms. The candidate will be responsible for designing and executing performance testing strategies, developing automation frameworks, analyzing system bottlenecks, and ensuring optimal application performance across OSS/BSS, service activation, provisioning, inventory, assurance, and network management systems.

"Minimum 7 years of strong experience in Performance Testing, with in-depth exposure to industry-standard practices.

At least 5 years of experience in a Lead role, demonstrating the ability to guide teams and drive performance testing initiatives.

Sound end-to-end performance testing expertise as an individual contributor, including test design, scripting, execution, analysis, and reporting.

Minimum 6-8 years of hands-on experience with JMeter, which is a mandatory requirement for this role.

Strong knowledge of Performance Engineering concepts, including bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, and tuning recommendations.

Proven experience in performance monitoring and analysis across different environments.

Ability to manage and mentor a team, while also handling critical deliverables independently.

Excellent communication skills, essential for client interactions, report walkthroughs, performance review discussions, and stakeholder management.

Experience in client reviews, requirements gathering, and coordination, especially in onsite engagements.

Exposure to project management activities, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and status reporting."

Required Technical skills

Performance Testing

LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, or equivalent

Load, Stress, Spike, Volume, and Endurance Testing

Performance Monitoring & Tuning

Capacity Planning

Preferred skills

Key responsibilities

"Design and execute Performance, Load, Stress, Endurance, and Scalability Testing for telecom applications.

Analyze application, database, API, and infrastructure performance metrics.

Identify bottlenecks and work with development teams to recommend performance improvements.

Automate test execution and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Validate performance of telecom OSS/BSS systems, APIs, middleware, and microservices.

Create workload models and simulate real-world telecom traffic scenarios.

Support capacity planning and production performance assessments.

Prepare performance reports, dashboards, and executive-level summaries.

Collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps, and business stakeholders."

Database & Monitoring

SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana

Kibana, Prometheus

Tools & Platforms Test/defect management

JIRA, qTest , Version control

Git, GitLab, CI/CD

Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline integration, DevOps practices, Collaboration

Confluence.AWS, Azure or GCP

Soft Skills

Effective communication , Problem-solver mindset

Key competencies"Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Performance bottleneck analysis

Client-facing communication

Agile/Scrum delivery

Stakeholder management

Leadership and mentoring capabilities"