Performance Testing Engineer, Sr Associate

Job Title: Performance Testing Engineer

Overview:
Seeking a hands-on Performance Testing Engineer to drive performance validation and analysis for the TaxSmart platform. You will architect and automate performance testing solutions, ensuring scalability and reliability across AWS-based environments. The role demands deep expertise in modern testing, monitoring, and logging tools, as well as strong orchestration and automation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated performance testing frameworks and utilities.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for performance test orchestration and automated result generation.
• Execute load, stress, and scalability tests using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter, and similar.
• Integrate and leverage monitoring tools (APM, AppDynamics) and logging platforms (ELK Stack, OpenSearch, Splunk, Grafana) for real-time analysis and reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define performance requirements and ensure robust coverage.
• Analyze test results, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimizations.
• Support pre- and post-deployment performance validation in AWS environments.
• Mentor a small team of performance engineers.

• 3+ years in performance engineering, preferably in fintech or asset/wealth management.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS stack (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)-mandatory.
• Proficiency in performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter etc
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.) and test orchestration.
• Exposure to APM tools (AppDynamics, Dynatrace) and logging/monitoring platforms (ELK Stack, OpenSearch, Splunk, Grafana).
• Solid programming/scripting skills (Python, Java, Groovy, NodeJS, SQL).
• Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership abilities.