Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Job Location
Chennai, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Performance Engineer
Job Type
ONSITE
Job Description
Job Summary
Play a key role in developing, testing, and maintaining software components and applications aligned with business and technical requirements. Design and execute performance testing strategies using tools such as JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner. Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks through diagnostics including heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, and Wireshark. Provide tuning recommendations and collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to optimize performance.
Monitor and optimize server-side and browser-side performance using tools like Lighthouse, Catchpoint, Chrome DevTools, and WebPageTest. Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, SREs, and QA to embed performance best practices throughout the SDLC. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to architectural standards. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving software defects, including performance-related issues.
Continuously learn and apply best practices in software development, performance engineering, quality, and security. Contribute to the design of new features and improvements to existing applications with a performance-first mindset.
Job Title Software Engineer Performance Engineering
Location Tamil Nadu, India
Job Type Permanent
Responsibilities - Play a key role in developing, testing, and maintaining software components and applications aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Design and execute performance testing strategies using tools such as JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner.
- Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks through diagnostics including heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, and Wireshark.
- Provide tuning recommendations and collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to optimize performance.
- Monitor and optimize server-side and browser-side performance using tools like Lighthouse, Catchpoint, Chrome DevTools, and WebPageTest.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, SREs, and QA to embed performance best practices throughout the SDLC.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to architectural standards.
- Assist in troubleshooting and resolving software defects, including performance-related issues.
- Continuously learn and apply best practices in software development, performance engineering, quality, and security.
- Contribute to the design of new features and improvements to existing applications with a performance-first mindset.
- Required Education: Requires a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field of study.
- Good to have Certifications: JMeter, Azure, GCP, AI/ML, Splunk, New Relic
- Minimum 2-5 years with the following technologies (experience may be gained concurrently):
- Performance & Observability: JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, New Relic, Splunk, Wireshark, heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, Lighthouse, Catchpoint
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, JavaScript, Shell, Groovy, PERL
- Infrastructure & Tools: Azure, AKS
- Diagnostics: Fiddler, Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest
- Proven expertise in performance testing, diagnostics, tuning of distributed systems.
- Strong scripting/automation (Shell, Python, PERL), infrastructure-as-code.
- Deep understanding of microservices, cloud-native, container orchestration.
- Skilled in APM tools (New Relic, Dynatrace), log analysis (Splunk), browser-side optimization.
- Excellent communication/leadership, cross-functional collaboration.
- JMeter
- Locust
- LoadRunner
- New Relic
- Splunk
- Wireshark
- Lighthouse
- Chrome DevTools
- WebPageTest
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