Overview
On Site
$100,000+
Full Time
Skills
QA
quality assurance
performance
Job Details
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QA Performance Engineer
Dallas, TX (Onsite)
Hiring Type: Full Time
Job Summary:
We re seeking a detail-oriented and technically skilled QA Performance Engineer to join our quality assurance team. You ll be responsible for designing and executing performance tests to ensure our applications meet high standards of speed, scalability, and reliability. Your work will directly impact user experience and system stability across our platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with development and QA teams to define performance benchmarks and testing strategies.
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests.
- Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.
- Monitor system performance in production and pre-production environments.
- Create detailed performance test plans and documentation.
- Use tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or Apache Benchmark to simulate user load.
- Work closely with DevOps to integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide actionable insights to developers and stakeholders based on test outcomes.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in performance testing or QA engineering.
- Strong understanding of performance testing methodologies and metrics (latency, throughput, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Java, Bash, etc.).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and documentation abilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with microservices architecture and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of database performance tuning and query optimization.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies.
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