Lead Performance Tester (IC Leadership Role)
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Job Location:
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
ABOUT US
Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund distribute market and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles California Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1500 game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.
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Lead Performance Tester (IC Leadership Role)
Team:Quality Engineering & Platform Reliability
Location:Remote / Hybrid (Kuala Lumpur preferred)
Seniority:Individual Contributor Lead
About the Role
Xsolla powers global commerce for the gaming industry a platform that processesmassive transaction volumes complex integrations and millisecond-sensitive interactions.
Were seeking aLead Performance Testerto define execute and institutionalize performance testing across this landscape.
This is ahands-on technically deep individual contributor leadership role. Youll architect and drive performance testing strategies craft sophisticated test harnesses and author thePerformance Testing Runbookthat sets the gold standard for all future testing efforts.
If you thrive in environments whereevery number tells a story latency throughput resource contention and scaling curves this is your stage.
Core Responsibility
- Architect and lead enterprise-grade performance testing frameworksacross multiple distributed systems APIs SDKs and service integrations.
- Design execute and interpret performance load soak and stress teststhat simulate real-world concurrency and traffic behaviors.
- Build reusable performance harnessesusing modern tools such asJMeterk6GatlingLocust orLoadRunner Enterprise and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Author and maintain the Performance Testing Runbook a detailed operational guide covering environment setup load profiles KPIs and performance sign-off criteria.
- Instrument systems for observability leveragingAPM and monitoring tools(Datadog New Relic Grafana Prometheus ELK OpenTelemetry) to trace and correlate test results with backend telemetry.
- Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysisat every layer of the stack network API cache database and compute identifying contention saturation points and tuning opportunities.
- Work directly with backend DevOps and SRE teamsto benchmark system capacity analyze regressions and validate optimization hypotheses.
- Integrate performance metrics into CI/CD enforcing data-driven go/no-go gates and providing clear visual reports on trend lines and performance drift.
- Mentor and influenceQA automation and infrastructure engineers in the art and science of performance engineering.
Required Technical Skills & Expertise
- 8 yearsof hands-on experience inperformance load and scalability testingfor large-scale or enterprise-grade systems.
- Advanced proficiency withmultiple performance testing tools including:
- JMeterk6GatlingLoadRunner EnterpriseLocustNeoLoad orBlazeMeter.
- Expertise intest scripting and automationusingPython JavaScript/TypeScript or Groovy.
- Deep understanding ofdistributed architectures microservices APIs message queues and async processing.
- Proficiency withprofiling and analysis tools(YourKit JProfiler VisualVM Chrome DevTools perf flame graphs).
- Proven ability tocorrelate and interpret metricsfrom APM platforms (Datadog New Relic Dynatrace AppDynamics) and system monitors (Grafana Prometheus CloudWatch).
- Solid grasp ofnetwork and infrastructure fundamentals: TCP/IP HTTP/2 CDN behavior caching load balancing and service mesh patterns.
- Experience definingSLAs SLOs and performance baselines and embedding them into pipelines as measurable quality gates.
- Strong analytical mindset able toturn high-volume telemetry data into clear narratives actionable insights and capacity forecasts.
- Git proficiency and familiarity withCI/CD pipelines(Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or CircleCI).
Preferred / Bonus Experience
- Familiarity withcontainerized and cloud-native performance testing(Kubernetes Docker AWS Fargate GCP GKE).
- Experience withchaos engineeringor resilience testing frameworks (Gremlin Litmus ChaosMesh).
- Understanding ofdatabase performance tuningand query profiling (PostgreSQL MySQL Redis MongoDB).
- Knowledge ofAPI gateway performance behavior(Kong NGINX AWS API Gateway).
- Prior experienceauthoring or maintaining enterprise performance frameworks or internal testing platforms.
- Contributions to open-source or internalperformance engineering playbooks documentation or frameworks.
What Success Looks Like
- APerformance Testing Runbookthat becomes the canonical guide for all future load and scalability testing at Xsolla.
- Continuous automated performance baselines integrated into the build/release pipelines.
- Systemic visibility into performance regressions and bottlenecks across services.
- Aquantifiable performance improvement culture where every release is measured and optimized not guessed.
- Clear data-backed recommendations that drive architectural improvements and product reliability.
BENEFITS:
Convenient work tools
Latest Mac workplaces additional hardware to make you more effective at work
Google Chat Gmail Google Drive Confluence Jira GitLab
Professional growth
Free trainings and participation in specialized conferences
Rich knowledge exchange within the company
More perks
Health insurance (Medical dental and optical)- Employee and dependants
Flexible hours: organize your day according to your needs and sprint & teamwork demands
No dress code
Comfortable and new office environment
The duties of this position may change from time to time so the individual and organization can achieve their results. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive. By submitting your application you consent to Xsolla conducting background checks where permitted by law after the final interview stage. All checks will comply with local regulations and your information will be handled confidentially. Xsolla KL Sdn Bhd takes your privacy very seriously and will not sell or externally distribute any data received during the hiring process. Pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) Xsolla KL Sdn Bhd is mindful and committed to the protection of your personal information and your privacy. Please direct any inquiries regarding your data privacytoemailprotected.
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About Company
Find out how you can launch, monetize and scale your video games worldwide, with no upfront costs, using Xsolla's comprehensive suite of tools and services.
