Performance Engineer Lead

Role Overview

Looking for a senior Performance Engineer/Lead who can independently drive the performance engineering strategy for client. The role will initially focus heavily on API performance testing for API modernization initiatives, while establishing a broader enterprise performance testing approach.

Key Responsibilities
Own performance testing strategy, planning, execution, analysis, and recommendations.
Solid hands-on API performance testing experience using tools such as Neoload , or equivalent.
Define workload models, SLAs/NFRs, baselines, load/stress/endurance scenarios, and performance acceptance criteria.
Analyze bottlenecks across APIs, applications, infrastructure, databases, and downstream integrations.
Partner with architects, development teams, vendors, and business teams to proactively identify performance risks.
Assess performance testing performed by SaaS/product vendors and determine what additional client specific validation is required.



Reuse/extend vendor performance scripts where appropriate to validate client-specific integrations, customizations, workloads, and user journeys.
Establish reusable performance assets, reporting, dashboards, and continuous performance testing practices.

Required Skills
12+ years of performance engineering/testing experience with experience leading performance initiatives.
Strong API and integration performance testing expertise. Ability to strategize and operate independently, not just execute predefined test scripts.
Robust troubleshooting, bottleneck analysis, monitoring, and performance-results interpretation skills.
Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. Healthcare payer experience preferred.
Solid communication skills with the ability to provide performance insights and recommendations to technical and program leadership.

📌 Performance Test Lead Hyderabad (India)
🏢 ValueMomentum
📍 India