Job Description:
Senior Performance Test Engineer
Location:Chennai/Hyderabad
Team:Engineering / QA
Experience:10 years
Type:Full-time
The Opportunity
Were looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer who isnt just strong technically but can also partner closely with our onshore performance manager to drive the direction of our performance engineering efforts. This is a hands-on technical and leadership roleperfect for someone who enjoys solving tough performance challenges and guiding a team.
What Youll Do
- Own Performance Testing:Design and execute complex test scenarios to ensure optimal functional/code coverage and identify performance regressions or other anomalies. Establish performance baselines and identify key areas for improvements.
- Review and Recommend:Give feedback on code architecture and design with an eye toward making everything faster more scalable and more reliable.
- Be a Strategic Partner:Work as a counterpart to our onshore performance manager. Share insights challenge ideas and help shape performance strategy for a globally distributed team.
- Drive Non-Functional Requirements:Make sure performance reliability and scalability are always part of the conversation for every new feature or release.
- Model Real-World Use:Build and maintain realistic workload models. Make sure our tests actually reflect how people use our systems.
- Collaborate Across Teams::Collaborate with architects and product owners to ensure NFR backlogs are maintained for the application while also ensuring that each feature and epics have NFRs defined.
- Automate & Integrate:Set up automated performance tests in our CI/CD pipelines so issues are caught early.
- Improve Our Tooling:Build and maintain frameworks that make it easier for everyone to test and monitor performance.
- Communicate Clearly Share your findingsgood or badwith technical and business teams and make practical recommendations.
What Youll Bring
- 10 years experience in performance engineering including testing profiling and tuning high-available and scalable mission critical applications.
- At least 3 years experience of leading performance testing & engineering practices for a suite of products including web mobile and desktop applications. Ideally across multiple locations or time zones.
- Experience acting as a key contact or counterpart to management influencing technical direction and strategy.
- Deep hands-on knowledge with tools like JMeter LoadRunner Gatling etc. as well as client-side performance analysis tools like lighthouse WebPageTest.
- Proficient in monitoring and observability solutions with a solid understanding of APM tools like Dynatrace App Dynamics
- Proven experience in performance tuning and optimization of applications and systems. Proficient in application profiling tools like JProfiler Yourkit
- Hands on experience in analyzing heap dumps and thread dumps to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Strong programming skills in at least one language Java Python C C# etc. and comfortable applying this knowledge to solve real-world performance challenges.
- Strong background in reviewing system architecture and recommending improvements.
- Track record of building data-driven workload models and using real production telemetry.
- Solid experience working in cloud (AWS Azure GCP) on-prem and hybrid environments. Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Good working knowledge of both relational and NoSQL databases and how to troubleshoot database performance.
- Comfort with DevOps practices and integrating performance testing in CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong analytical and communication skillsable to explain both technical and business impact.
Good to have
- Experience with chaos engineering.
- Prior experience in telecom domain and salesforce CRM.
- Knowledge of service virtualization and mocking tools.
Weekly Hours:
40
Time Type:
Regular
Location:
Chennai Tamil Nadu India
It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Required Experience:
Senior IC