Performance Test Engineer

Role: Senior Performance Test Engineer

Function: Quality Engineering / Performance Testing

Location: Remote (India)

Type: Full-time

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Management Consulting

About Company

The company is a digital engineering firm founded in 2020, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It specializes in AI-driven solutions and platform engineering for enterprise digital transformation.

Over 450 professionals work across seven global offices, including Bangalore, Toronto, Dallas, Belgrade, Johannesburg, Bogota, and Trivandrum. The company has delivered 55+ projects across 25+ countries.

In 2023, it expanded its product engineering capabilities through the acquisition of a product engineering firm. Its culture is fast-paced and built on ownership, agility, and a relentless focus on client outcomes.

Position Overview

As a Senior Performance Test Engineer, you will own end-to-end performance testing across enterprise-grade applications, ensuring systems meet scalability, reliability, and throughput benchmarks. You will design and execute load and stress test strategies using JMeter, while leveraging Datadog for real-time observability, bottleneck identification, and performance reporting. This role directly influences the quality and resilience of client-facing platforms across the company's global delivery engagements.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute performance test plans, load tests, stress tests, and soak tests using JMeter for web/API and microservices-based enterprise applications
• Instrument and monitor application performance metrics — latency, throughput, error rates, CPU/memory utilization — using Datadog dashboards and APM
• Analyze Datadog traces, logs, and metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes, and collaborate with development teams on remediation
• Define performance SLAs/SLOs in alignment with client requirements and validate system behavior under peak and sustained load conditions
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous performance validation
• Produce detailed performance test reports with findings, trends, and actionable recommendations for engineering and stakeholder teams
• Contribute to performance testing best practices, frameworks, and reusable test asset libraries across the company's quality engineering practice

Must Have Criteria

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in performance testing
• Proven experience with JMeter, including scripting, parameterization, and distributed load execution
• Hands-on experience with Datadog for application monitoring — APM, dashboards, log management, and alerting
• Proven ability to correlate Datadog observability data with JMeter load test results to diagnose and resolve performance issues
• Experience defining and validating performance SLAs/SLOs for web or API-based enterprise applications
• Hands-on experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent)

Nice to Have

• Experience in performance testing for cloud-native microservices architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with additional monitoring or APM tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, or Grafana
• Exposure to supply chain, ERP, or data platform performance testing scenarios
• Datadog or relevant performance engineering certifications

What We Offer

• Fully remote engagement with a globally distributed team across 7 offices
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise digital transformation programs across 25+ countries
• Opportunity to shape and grow the company's quality engineering practice from within