Performance Test Engineer – Skills & Requirements


Performance Testing Fundamentals


- Strong understanding of performance testing concepts, types, and methodologies including Load, Stress, Soak, and Spike testing

- Knowledge of key performance metrics such as Response Time, Throughput, Latency, and Error Rate

- Experience defining performance test scenarios, workload models, and capacity planning strategies

Performance Testing Tools

- Hands -on experience with Apache Software Foundation Apache JMeter

- Ability to design, develop, and execute performance test scripts for web, mobile, and API -based applications

- Experience creating reusable and scalable test frameworks for performance validation

Programming & Scripting

- Proficiency in Java / JavaScript / Groovy for scripting and enhancing test cases

- Experience writing custom scripts in JMeter using BeanShell and Groovy

API & Web Services Testing

- Robust knowledge of REST and SOAP API performance testing using JMeter

- Experience with Postman for API functional validation prior to performance testing

Performance Monitoring & Analysis

- Ability to analyze test results and identify system bottlenecks across CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network

- Familiarity with monitoring and profiling tools such as:

- New Relic

- Grafana Labs (Grafana)

- AppDynamics

- Dynatrace

- Prometheus

- Intel PresentMon (for game/application performance analysis)