We are seeking a Performance Architect – QA to join our R&D; team as a senior individual contributor. The ideal candidate is a hands-on performance engineering expert with experience in core products, platforms, or large-scale enterprise software.
You will shape performance strategy and partner with Product Engineering, Architecture, SRE, DevOps, and R&D; teams to deliver highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency products. This role involves technical ownership and influence, with no people-management responsibilities.
Required experience and qualifications -
15+ years in QA, performance engineering, software engineering, automation, and performance architecture.
Mandatory experience in a Core Product, Core Engineering, or R&D; organization.
Proven hands-on experience with commercial products, enterprise platforms, SaaS, or distributed systems.
Expertise in performance architecture, scalability, resilience, and distributed systems.
Experience in leading chaos and resilience engineering initiatives, including fault injection, dependency failures, traffic surges, failover validation,
and self-healing scenarios.
Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud-native patterns, and multi-tenant platforms.
Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or related technologies.
Building performance simulators, workload generators, service virtualization, or fault-injection tools.
Hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and preferably AKS, including autoscaling and high availability.
Experience with K6, JMeter, Gatling, or custom performance frameworks.
Programming experience in Java, Python, C#, Go, or equivalent.
Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Solid understanding of observability, APM, distributed tracing, logging, and database performance tuning.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Why Join?
Senior IC role with significant technical ownership.
📌 Performance Architect – QA (Pune)
🏢 Avaya
📍 Pune