Job Title: Senior Performance/Load testing SDET

Location: Pune, India

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in QA automation with at least 3 years in a performance testing role.
- Solid hands-on experience with performance/load testing tools is required.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks for web and API testing.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-based test execution environments.
- Excellent coordination and communication skills to work effectively across time zones and teams.
- Experience in triaging production issues and driving cross-functional collaboration.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and quality engineering best practices.

Requirements

Preferred Skills:
- Exposure to other automation tools or frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, RestSharp, SpecFlow)
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for build and test automation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Experience working in distributed global teams.
- Ownership mindset, Excellent communications skills.
- Proactively looking to optimize automation and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement end-to-end performance testing strategies, including load, stress, soak, spike, volume, and concurrency testing.




- Develop robust performance scripts using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust, LoadRunner or equivalent.
- Define performance KPIs (latency, throughput, error rates, CPU/memory utilization, SLAs) • Create realistic workload models based on production traffic patterns and usage analytics.
- Build scalable automated performance test suites integrated with CI/CD.
- Collaborate closely with onsite engineering teams and understand the load testing requirements C come up with performance testing strategies.
- Monitor performance automation results, identify regressions early, and coordinate and engineering and QA teams to resolve issues promptly.
- Participate in production incident triage from QA standpoint – jump on calls as needed, lead automation-related root cause analysis, and ensure follow up actions are taken (Adding the automation for bug).
- Review, design, and optimize automation frameworks using C# and Playwright, ensuring they are maintainable, scalable, and efficient.
- Drive test data management and environment readiness to support automated testing.
- Track automation of health metrics and proactively identify process improvements to reduce failures and execution time.
- Mentor and guide offshore automation engineers, providing technical oversight and alignment with overall QA strategy.

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