Performance Tester/Platform Engineer
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Based in United StatesFull-TimeMiddle
Salary96,569 - 130,651 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSJavascriptJMeterCI/CDRESTful APIsNodeJS
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in performance testing, QA engineering, or software testing within web-based or distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or K6, with scripting proficiency in JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of performance engineering principles including concurrency, scalability, throughput, and resource utilization.
- Experience working in AWS cloud environments (EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch) and distributed system architectures.
- Familiarity with modern development stacks including REST APIs, microservices, NodeJS, and ReactJS-based applications.
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with the ability to interpret logs, metrics, and system traces.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred, along with exposure to Agile/Scrum environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests to validate system behavior under varying levels of demand.
- Define performance benchmarks, KPIs, and test strategies aligned with SLAs, user load models, and business requirements.
- Build and maintain performance testing environments in AWS, ensuring readiness for large-scale distributed testing scenarios.
- Develop automated test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or K6 and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Analyze system performance data, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement tuning and optimization strategies.
- Conduct capacity planning, baseline analysis, and resilience testing including failover and stress scenarios.
- Produce detailed performance reports and dashboards to communicate insights, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
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