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Lead Performance QA Engineer

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Lead Performance Engineer responsible for automated performance testing, performance analysis, mentoring, and collaboration with teams to enhance product quality and performance.
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Job Description

About Us:

Qualys is the leading provider of information security and compliance cloud solutions. We are currently seeking a highly skilled Lead Performance Engineer to join our team and lead the Performance efforts of backend systems.

Job Summary:
As a Lead Performance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the highest performance and quality benchmarks. You will lead performance engineering efforts, mentor team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive performance initiatives. Your deep expertise in performance methodologies, automation, and leadership will be instrumental in shaping our quality strategies and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software.

Key Responsibilities:

- Plan, design, and execute automated performance tests to evaluate system scalability, stability, and reliability.

- Lead the creation of test strategies, workload models, estimation, test data setup, and performance test cases.

- Utilize tools such as JMeter for scripting and executing performance tests.

- Perform deep performance analysis and tuning in both pre-production and production environments.
- Use AppDynamics and similar APM tools for monitoring application behavior and identifying performance bottlenecks.

- Analyze system-level metrics including CPU, memory, garbage collection, network usage, and database performance to diagnose issues.

- Work closely with development and DevOps teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance problems.
- Generate detailed performance reports, graphs, and dashboards using tools like Grafana, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch.

- Identify and address memory leaks, connection pool issues, thread contention, and other scalability concerns.

- Prepare and publish performance test results, reports, and sign-off documentation.

- Support cloud-based environments and containerized deployments using Docker/Kubernetes.

- Provide leadership and mentorship in performance engineering best practices.

- Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders on test progress, results, and risk assessments.

Experience :
- Over 9 years of experience in software performance engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or similar role.

- Extensive hands-on experience with performance testing tools and frameworks such as JMeter, AppDynamics, Dynatrace ,LoadRunner, etc.

- Strong understanding of performance engineering methodologies, tools, and processes, including scalability, stress, and load testing.

- Proven ability to lead performance test planning, execution, and reporting, ensuring high-quality software performance and optimal system behavior under load.
 

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify, document, and report issues effectively.
- Meticulous attention to detail is essential for effective testing.
- Familiarity with software testing concepts, types of testing, and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.
- Knowledge of programming languages like Java or Python.
- A strong desire to ensure software quality and improve processes.

Why Join Us:
Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and be part of a team that values innovation.
Growth Opportunities: We offer continuous learning and development opportunities to help you grow in your career.
Impactful Work: Play a key role in delivering high-quality products that has wide impact.
Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive and collaborative team that values diverse perspectives.

Top Skills

Appdynamics
Docker
Dynatrace
Elasticsearch
Grafana
Java
Jmeter
Kubernetes
Loadrunner
Opensearch
Python

Qualys Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office

Survey No. 20, 10th to 16th Floor, Tower B Panchshil Business Park, Balewadi, Pune, Maharashtra , India, 411045

Qualys Shivaji Nagar, Maharashtra, IND Office

Survey No. 20, 10th to 16th Floor, Tower B Panchshil Business Park,, Shivaji Nagar, 411005, India

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