Performance Test Engineer

Job Title:
Performance Test Engineer
Work Location:
Hybrid (minimum of 3 days a week in our Okemos or Farmington Hills office)

Performance Test Engineer

Primary

Job Responsibilities:



• Design and lead comprehensive performance testing strategies to validate system behavior under load, stress, and peak conditions.

• Align these strategies with business requirements and project goals

• Create, configure, and execute complex test scripts in JMeter to simulate real-world usage scenarios and workload patterns.

• Optimize and troubleshoot scripts to achieve accurate and reliable performance assessments.

• Utilize Dynatrace for continuous performance monitoring, tracking key application metrics (response time, throughput, resource utilization) and diagnosing issues in real-time to support proactive performance management.

• Integrate performance testing and monitoring tools within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring that performance issues are identified and addressed early in the development lifecycle.

• Perform in-depth capacity planning analysis, determining optimal infrastructure requirements to handle projected workloads and recommending strategies for scaling applications in Kubernetes environments.

• Use Bitbucket for version control of test scripts, configurations, and related documentation, fostering effective collaboration and change tracking within performance engineering teams.

• Collaborate with development, Dev Ops, and operations teams to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and recommend tuning or architectural changes to improve application performance and scalability.

• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes clusters, ensuring efficient use of resources, autoscaling configurations, and resilience under load.

• Generate detailed performance reports and dashboards that present test results, analysis, and insights for various stakeholders, including senior management and engineering teams.

• Conduct root cause analysis for complex performance issues, using Dynatrace and other diagnostics tools to trace issues to specific components, services, or resource configurations.

• Initiate proactive approach to advocate for performance engineering best practices, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in performance testing and monitoring processes.

• Document test strategies, configurations, tuning recommendations, and lessons learned, ensuring continuity and knowledge sharing within the team.

• These responsibilities ensure a strong focus on performance optimization, scalability, and reliability in modern cloud-native environments, making use of advanced testing, monitoring, and automation capabilities.

• Actively participate in PI planning sessions to align performance goals and establish testing strategies and set realistic performance targets.

• Ensure all the dependencies are identified, documented and addressed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering and seven years of experience in applications and systems performance testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development.

• Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with JMeter for creating complex test scripts and scenarios.

• Proficiency with Dynatrace or similar APM tools for real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and root cause analysis

• Ability to interpret performance data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and areas for optimization

• Experience managing and optimizing performance in Kubernetes environments, autoscaling, and tuning applications for efficient use of cluster resources.

• Knowledge on versioning and CI/CD integration tools like Bitbucket and Jenkins for maintaining test suites

• Advanced knowledge of DB/SQL/Linux and experienced working in agile work environment.

• Effective communication skills and ability to resolve complex problems and use independent judgment.