Performance Engineer (Playwright, TypeScript) - W2 position - 12+ Yrs

Role: Performance Engineer

Exp: 12+ yrs

Location: Remote

Type: W2 Position

Qualifications:

• 5 8+ years of experience in performance engineering or performance test automation.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers on performance best practices, optimization techniques, and benchmarking methodologies.
• Participate in design reviews and proactively highlight potential scalability and performance risks.
• Use TestRail to manage test plans, test runs, and performance test documentation.
• Produce clear, actionable performance assessment reports with root cause analysis, remediation recommendations, and capacity insights.
• Communicate findings and trends to leadership and engineering teams to inform release readiness.
• Strong understanding of web application architecture, including browser rendering, JavaScript execution, caching, CDNs, and API interaction patterns.
• Hands-on experience with one or more performance testing tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress or comparable).
• Experience analyzing browser performance using Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest, Lighthouse, or similar.
• Solid experience with API testing and performance validation (REST, GraphQL, JSON payload profiling, etc.).
• Proficiency with at least one scripting or programming language (Preferably TypeScript etc.).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret metrics (latency, throughput, resource usage, etc.).
• Experience integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline (GitLab preferred, but GitHub Actions / Jenkins etc.).
• Familiarity with test management systems such as TestRail (or alternatives likeZephyr, Xray, qTest)., WorkSite

Regards,

Prakash

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