The Senior QA Automation Engineer (Performance, Database & Scale Testing) is responsible for designing, building, and operating the performance and scale testing capability across SmartShipHub's cloud-native platform. The role owns the full performance engineering lifecycle — from requirements and test design through execution, analysis, and actionable recommendations to engineering teams.
The successful candidate will architect reusable, maintainable performance test frameworks; build AI-augmented test generation pipelines leveraging Gen AI tooling; validate database query performance under realistic fleet-scale loads; and champion performance as a first-class quality gate in CI/CD pipelines.
JMeter / Gatling / k6
Locust / Artillery
Prometheus / Grafana
PostgreSQL / MongoDB
Cloud: GCP / AWS / Azure
Gen AI: Claude / ChatGPT
K8s Scale Testing
Database Benchmarking
CI/CD Integration
IoT / Maritime SaaS
Experience Requirements
Core Experience
7-12 years of total QA / quality engineering experience with meaningful progression
5+ years of hands-on performance, load, and scale testing experience in cloud-native, SaaS, or product-based environments
Proven experience building performance test frameworks from scratch — not just running existing scripts
Experience at a product-based company or MNC with global SLAs and high-availability commitments is strongly preferred
Experience contributing to or owning performance engineering as a dedicated function (not combined QA generalist)
Domain & Setting
Experience testing cloud-based products deployed on GCP, AWS, or Azure — Kubernetes-hosted microservices strongly preferred
Experience with IoT, maritime, industrial, or high-volume telemetry platforms is a significant plus
Comfort working in polyglot engineering environments (Java, Python, Node.js, Go) across test tooling
Experience collaborating with SRE, platform, and database engineering teams on performance RCA
Exposure to maritime vessel data