Role Description

Lead Performance Test Engineer Department: Quality Assurance / Engineering Experience: 10+ years Job Summary We are looking for an experienced Lead Performance Test Engineer to define and drive performance testing across critical applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and optimal system performance. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in performance test strategy, execution, and root-cause analysis, the ability to formalize non-functional requirements and SLAs with stakeholders, and a track record of mentoring engineers and establishing best practices across a team. Key Responsibilities

Define and own the overall performance testing strategy, approach, and framework across projects, including elicitation of non-functional requirements, SLA formalization with stakeholders, and realistic workload modeling
Lead the design and development of complex performance test scripts and scenarios based on business and technical requirements
Prepare, manage, and validate high-volume, production-like test data across multiple modules and environments,



including large-scale data construction, backup-restore, and replication where needed
Execute and oversee load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability testing using industry-standard tools
Write and optimize complex DB queries to validate data integrity and analyze backend/database performance
Conduct deep-dive root-cause analysis on performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers
Analyze and correlate results across tools, and present detailed performance reports with explicit, actionable recommendations to leadership
Collaborate closely with architects, developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues and drive system tuning
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation
Mentor and guide junior/mid-level engineers on performance testing best practices and tools
Proactively identify risks,

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📍 Kochi