SG-27 | Performance Test Engineer / Performance Engineering Specialist

Grade: SG-27

Experience: 7-10 Years

Primary Skills

Performance Testing, Performance Engineering, JMeter, LoadRunner Enterprise/Professional, Performance Center, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Distributed Systems, API Performance Testing, Web Application Performance Testing, Capacity Planning, Workload Modeling, Bottleneck Analysis, Linux, SQL, Azure Cloud, Healthcare Domain Knowledge (Preferred), CI/CD, Root Cause Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Monitoring & Observability.

Role Summary

As a Performance Test Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, stability, and performance of enterprise healthcare applications across distributed systems and cloud environments. The role involves designing and executing performance tests, analyzing system behavior under load, identifying bottlenecks across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers, and partnering with development, platform, operations, and architecture teams to drive performance improvements.

The successful candidate will play a key role in performance engineering initiatives by leveraging tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Dynatrace, and Splunk to evaluate application performance, improve observability, reduce production risks, and ensure optimal end-user experience across healthcare platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

- Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter and LoadRunner.

- Create workload models, performance test strategies, test plans, and execution approaches for web, API, microservices, and distributed applications.

- Perform Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance (Soak), Volume, Scalability, and Capacity Testing.

- Analyze application performance across web, API, middleware, database, network, and cloud infrastructure layers.

- Leverage Dynatrace, Splunk, and other monitoring tools to identify performance bottlenecks and conduct root cause analysis.

- Monitor CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, Network, JVM, Thread Pools, Database Connections, and Application Metrics during test execution.





- Collaborate with development teams to resolve performance issues and improve application responsiveness and stability.

- Participate in P1/P2 incident investigations and contribute to war-room diagnostics for critical production issues.

- Drive observability improvements through enhanced monitoring, logging, tracing, and alert tuning.

- Identify system bottlenecks and provide recommendations for performance optimization and capacity planning.

- Conduct database performance analysis, query optimization validation, and transaction monitoring.

- Validate performance of APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, and Cloud Native applications.

- Execute performance testing within CI/CD pipelines and support shift-left performance engineering initiatives.

- Prepare performance assessment reports, dashboards, trends, and executive-level summaries.

- Contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation and preventive performance improvement initiatives.

- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, SREs, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to ensure performance requirements are met.

- Participate in architecture reviews to identify scalability and reliability risks early in the development lifecycle.

- Support performance benchmarking, capacity forecasting, and production readiness assessments.

- Ensure compliance with healthcare application performance, availability, and reliability requirements.

Required Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

Experience

- 5-8 years of experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.

- Strong hands-on experience with JMeter and/or LoadRunner.

- Experience executing enterprise-level performance testing engagements.

- Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-based applications.





- Experience working in Healthcare domain applications is preferred.

Technical Skills

Performance Testing

- Expertise in:
- Load Testing

- Stress Testing

- Soak/Endurance Testing

- Spike Testing

- Volume Testing

- Scalability Testing

- Capacity Testing

- Strong understanding of performance engineering methodologies and best practices.

Performance Tools

- Hands-on expertise in:
- Apache JMeter

- LoadRunner Professional / Enterprise

- Performance Center

- BlazeMeter (Good to Have)

Monitoring & Observability

- Strong experience using:
- Dynatrace

- Splunk

- Grafana

- AppDynamics (Valuable to Have)

- Azure Monitor (Good to Have)

- Ability to analyze

- Application metrics

- Infrastructure metrics

- Logs

- Distributed traces

- Business transaction flows

Cloud & Infrastructure

- Experience with Azure Cloud environments.

- Strong understanding of
- Linux administration

- Networking fundamentals

- Load Balancers

- Kubernetes (Preferred)

- Containers and Microservices Architecture

Database Skills

- Strong SQL skills with experience in:
- SQL Server

- Azure SQL

- Oracle (Preferred)

- MongoDB (Preferred)

- Ability to analyze

- Slow queries

- Locking issues

- Connection pool bottlenecks

- Database performance metrics

Automation & CI/CD

- Experience integrating performance tests with:
- Jenkins

- GitHub Actions

- Azure DevOps

- Knowledge of scripting using

- Java

- JavaScript

- Groovy

- Python (Preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting enterprise-scale Tier-0 or mission-critical applications.

- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) environments.

- Experience handling production incident diagnostics and performance troubleshooting.

- Familiarity with AIOps, alert correlation, and observability platforms.

- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads.

- Experience with Healthcare applications, claims processing, member portals, provider systems, and healthcare data platforms.

- Experience in proactive performance monitoring and reliability engineering.

- Certification in LoadRunner, Dynatrace, Azure, or Cloud Platforms is preferred.

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