Senior Specialist - Quality Engineering(Full time with the Fortune 500 Company's)

Job Title: Senior Specialist - Quality Engineering

Exp: 5-8 years

Loc: Bangalore

Notice period Immediate to 20 days

Job Description Senior QA (Performance Testing JMeter)

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance Testing & Optimization
• - Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts using Apache JMeter for APIs, backend systems, and integrations.
• - Set up and manage JMeter distributed testing environments (MasterSlave configuration) to simulate large-scale load tests.
• - Analyze performance metrics (throughput, response time, latency, error rate) and identify performance bottlenecks in APIs or services.
• - Collaborate with DevOps to integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation.
• - Work with developers and architects to optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• - Generate and present detailed performance reports, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.
• - Implement best practices for load, stress, endurance, and spike testing to ensure production readiness.

• Test Automation & Development
• - Design and maintain automation for functional and regression testing across APIs and web systems. - Utilize Python/Java and frameworks like TestNG/JUnit to enhance automation frameworks. - Integrate automation with GIT, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps (VSTS) for seamless test execution. - Write optimized SQL queries for backend data validation during performance testing.

• Leadership & Management
• - Lead and mentor a performance and automation QA team, ensuring high standards of test delivery. - Drive improvements in testing processes, tools, and performance benchmarking methods. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure performance goals align with product requirements.

• Quality Assurance & Process Improvement
• - Define performance SLAs and KPIs, and track them across environments. - Advocate for performance-driven development by engaging early in design and architecture discussions. - Continuously evaluate new tools and technologies for performance monitoring and scalability.
• Collaboration & Communication

• - Communicate performance testing results and insights to stakeholders and leadership. - Work with product and engineering teams to identify performance risks early in the release cycle. - Provide regular updates on system stability and readiness before production rollout.

• Required Skills & Experience
• Technical Skills
• - Strong hands-on experience in Performance Testing using Apache JMeter (API, backend, microservices). - Proficiency in JMeter distributed (MasterSlave) setup, parameterization, correlation, and report analysis. - Deep understanding of HTTP, REST, JSON, and API performance metrics. - Experience integrating JMeter tests with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps). - Ability to interpret graphs and logs (CPU, memory, GC, thread dumps) for root cause analysis , load balancing solutions and performance tuning solutions. - Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, New Relic, etc.). - Strong SQL knowledge for backend validation and performance database analysis. - Working knowledge of automation frameworks (Selenium, TestNG, JUnit) is a plus.

• Management Skills
• - Proven experience leading a Performance/QA team with measurable outcomes. - Strong organizational, analytical, and reporting skills. - Ability to guide engineers in test strategy, scripting, and results interpretation.

• Preferred
• - Experience with cloud-based load testing (AWS, Azure, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner Cloud). - Knowledge of API Gateway performance, caching, and scalability testing.
• - Exposure to AI-driven performance monitoring tools.