Title: Performance Engineering / Performance Testing Lead
Location: Mississauga (Hybrid)
Key Responsibilities:
· Gather and analyse business technical system architecture SLA and performance testing requirements
· Define the performance testing strategy scope test approach detailed test plan workload model entry and exit criteria and execution schedule
· Analyze production logs application usage patterns transaction volumes and peakload data to develop productionlike workload models
· Design develop enhance and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner JMeter IBM Rational Performance Tester BlazeMeter and SOAP UI
· Perform load stress scalability endurance volume batchprocessing API and integration performance testing
· Develop scripts for Web HTTPHTML web services RESTSOAP APIs TruClient Citrix SAP GUI Siebel Java Vuser RDP XML and other clientserver protocols
· Configure performance test scenarios execute tests collect metrics analyze results and prepare detailed performance reports
· Monitor application servers web servers middleware databases operating systems Kubernetes environments Kafka platforms and cloud infrastructure during testing
· Analyze response time throughput scalability CPU memory processor queues context switches page faults network latency and database performance
· Perform JVMlevel analysis using logs heap dumps and thread dumps and work with development teams to identify performance issues
· Analyze AWR ADDM SQL execution plans query execution time resource utilization and cachehit ratios to support database tuning
· Use Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog AWS CloudWatch ITRS Geneos and related monitoring tools for bottleneck identification and rootcause analysis
· Conduct multidimensional analysis request tracing hotspot identification and SLAimpact analysis and provide actionable optimization recommendations
· Perform performance testing and monitoring of Kafka microservices Kubernetes pods cloudhosted applications middleware platforms and batch jobs
· Integrate performance tests with CICD pipelines using Jenkins Maven GitHub GitLab and Bitbucket
· Coordinate with business teams architects application development infrastructure database support QA cloud and globally distributed delivery teams
· Lead performance engineering teams provide technical guidance review deliverables and ensure timely delivery with required quality standards
· Support RFP responses solution design effort estimation tool evaluation and performance testing proposals
Mandatory Skills:
· Strong experience in performance testing and performance engineering
· Advanced handson experience with OpenTextHP LoadRunner and Apache JMeter
· Strong scripting experience with Web HTTPHTML TruClient web services REST APIs and SOAP APIs
· Experience in workload modelling production log analysis scenario design test execution and results analysis
· Strong knowledge of application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog or AWS CloudWatch
· Experience with JVM performance analysis including logs heap dumps and thread dumps
· Experience analyzing Oracle AWR and ADDM reports SQL queries execution plans and database performance
· Knowledge of application middleware database operatingsystem network and cloud performance metrics
· Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and providing capacity scalability and tuning recommendations
· Experience working in Agile and CICD delivery environments
· Strong stakeholder management technical leadership analytical documentation and communication skill.
