Quality Assurance Senior Performance Test Engineer

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. We are building a next generation cloud-native digital communication compliance platform designed to process index and search massive volumes of enterprise communication and content data across email chat voice and other enterprise collaboration systems

As a Sr Performance Test Engineer within our Quality Assurance team you will have the opportunity to take your software engineering career to the next level by collaborating with cross-functional teams to design build and optimize low-latency high-throughput systems for our next-generation cloud-native digital communication compliance platform.

Job responsibilities

• Define measure and continuously improve latency throughput and scalability KPIs for indexing search and retrieval workflows
• Run capacity modelling and stress testing end-to-end for the product spanning compute storage and networking layers
• Monitor the unit cost model and overall costs while ensuring SLIs/SLOs and SLAs are met
• Work with team to design auto-scaling strategies and workload distribution patterns
• Evaluate cloud resource economics (compute vs query volume trade-offs cold vs hot tier storage)
• Work with Operational teams to validate cluster configs replica strategies and fault tolerance setups
• Build required tooling to simulate real-world workloads drive initiatives such as chaos testing
• Build the quality gates for automated performance regression testing in the CI/CD pipelines
• Implement continuous performance base lining and track key metrics across product releases
• Uncover and investigate mem leaks GC overhead i/o contentions leveraging observability stacks
• Collaborate with Architects and Product to optimize product on non-functional aspects eliminating toil

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• 10 years of experience in performance engineering with 2 years on Search and indexing
• Formal education in computer science engineering with strong knowledge of OS networking caching and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of search engines (Elastic/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene) and data pipelines(Kafka/Spark)
• Advanced programmer in Java Python Perl (scripting)
• Hands-on experience with performance tools - JMeter Gatling JFR k6 etc
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and eco system - EC2 EKS S3 cloud watch
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such Prometheus Grafana Open Telemetry
• Hands-on experience with K8s Terraform Helm and CI/CD tooling - Jenkins GitHub actions Argo
• Prior experience of testing and optimizing systems processing cloud scale data volumes(petabytes)
• Analytical mindset with a bias for data-driven tuning
• Strong cross-collaborator with excellent communication skills (documentation and presentation skills)
  

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience / knowledge / exposure to MLOps
• Experience / knowledge of model governance and explainability
• Experience with compliance and risk or financial services