Overview
Job Title : Performance Test Engineer (8–10 Years Experience)
Kitchener, ON — 5 days a week
Long Term Contract (6 Months to start with)
Role Description
We are looking for an experienced Performance Test Engineer with strong expertise in performance testing tools, performance engineering principles, and end‑to‑end system analysis. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing, executing, and optimizing performance tests to ensure high availability, responsiveness, and scalability of enterprise applications.
Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests across various applications.
- Utilize industry-leading performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, K6, or Locust.
- Response time and bottleneck analysis
- Concurrency and throughput assessment
- Capacity planning
- Caching strategy evaluation
- Thread and connection pool tuning
- Memory leak detection and Garbage Collection (GC) behavior analysis
- Analyze test results and provide actionable insights and optimization recommendations.
- Work closely with development, DevOps, and architecture teams to resolve performance issues.
- Prepare clear documentation, including test strategies, scenario design, execution reports, and root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate across distributed teams to ensure system reliability and performance compliance.
Qualifications
8 years of hands-on performance testing experience in enterprise-scale environments.Strong expertise in one or more performance testing tools :
JMeterNeoLoadGatlingK6LocustDeep understanding of performance engineering concepts, including :
Response time analysisConcurrency and throughput optimizationCapacity planning and scalabilityCaching mechanismsThread and connection pool tuningMemory leaks and GC behaviorStrong analytical and problem-solving abilities.Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.Experience with :
JMeter (advanced scripting and distributed testing)Knowledge of performance monitoring tools and APM platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic)Understanding of cloud-native performance testing (AWS / Azure / GCP)Must Skills Required :
Performance TestingLoad TestingStress TestingJMeterLoadRunnerNeoLoadGatlingK6LocustPerformance EngineeringResponse Time AnalysisGC AnalysisMemory LeaksHP LoadRunnerJMETER#J-18808-Ljbffr