Senior Performance Test Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer  to join the team.

About Project:Our client is a fast-growing company and the premier healthcare provider of innovative solutions for different organizations. Its products enable both risk planning and operational risk monitoring, as well as platforms for variable medical purposes.

About Position:

The Performance Test Engineer will be responsible for the performance observability and testing of a product domain (i.e., software products within the same business domain). You will work closely together with the Domain Architect and the Engineering Director/Manager to develop an observability/test strategy and operational approach. You will coach and support the different squads in their continuous performance improvement activities (e.g., troubleshooting, bottleneck identification). 

Job responsibilities:

• Ownership of the Performance Testing & Observability framework and tooling within a product domain 
• Set up, coach and promote best practices in Performance (testing & observability) across the squads within a product domain 
• Design and maintain K6 Test scripts and framework development 
• Design and maintain performance observability dashboards 
• Execute Performance Tests for software products within a domain – to identify issues and bottlenecks which may affect performance 
• Ensure that software products meet performance requirements 
• Work closely with the Domain Architect and the Engineering Director/Manager to develop an observability/test strategy and operational approach 
• Work closely with the Domain Architect and the Engineering Director/Manager to identify and implement needed improvements and to optimize system performance, (e.g. database tuning and code optimizations). 
• Work closely with the development squads to identify and resolve performance issues and ensure that the software products and can handle the expected workload and user traffic 
• Work closely with the development squads to help them reproduce performance issues reported by the customers 

Job requirements:

• At least 5+ years of hands-on QA experience

• 3+ years of experience in performance and observability engineering or a related field experience with performance testing tools, such as K6 (preferred), Gatling, LoadRunner, Blazemeter and Jmeter.
• Experience with monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic or AppDynamics 
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability and capacity planning 
• Experience with SaaS in a B2B heavily regulated environment (telco, banking, pharma) using Kubernetes, Docker 
• Basic knowledge and experience with Kubernetes 
• Experience with building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines with the tools like GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins 
• Basic experience in programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Bash 
• Basic SQL knowledge 
• Experience with test automation solutions like Playwright, Cypress is a plus 
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum development process 
• Strong analytical problem solving-skills, attention to detail, ability to think out of the box 
• Open-minded, team player, autonomy, solution-driven, doer attitude 
• Ability to identify flaws in the testing process, toolset, infrastructure and to propose and drive necessary improvements 
• Flexible and able to cope with an ever-changing, dynamic and exciting environment 
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English