Role & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute performance tests using k6 for cloud-native, microservices-based applications.
- Create realistic workload models for end-to-end user journeys and execute load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and failover testing.
- Develop k6 scripts using JavaScript, scenarios, executors, thresholds, checks, correlation, parameterization, and think-time modelling.
- Perform performance testing of REST, gRPC, WebSocket, and GraphQL APIs.
- Integrate k6 performance tests into Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates.
- Monitor and analyze application performance using Azure Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Validate performance and autoscaling of applications running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including HPA and Cluster Autoscaler.
- Identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks across application, microservices, containers, databases, Redis cache, storage, and network layers.
- Perform root-cause analysis using telemetry, distributed tracing, execution plans,



wait statistics, Query Store, and other performance metrics.
- Prepare technical and executive-level performance reports highlighting findings, risks, capacity limitations, and recommendations.

Preferred Candidate Profile
- 58 years of experience in Performance Testing/Performance Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with k6 is mandatory, including scripting, scenarios, executors, thresholds, checks, correlation, and parameterization.
- 3+ years of experience in performance testing of cloud-based microservices, preferably on Microsoft Azure.
- Robust hands-on knowledge of Azure, AKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, kubectl, and CI/CD.
- Experience with Azure Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and KQL.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs; experience with gRPC, WebSocket, SignalR, or GraphQL is an advantage.
- Experience with Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions and integrating perform

📌 Senior Performance Test Engineer k6 Azure (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sunovaa Tech
📍 Bengaluru