Senior Performance QA Engineer

Qualys Engineering Team

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

We invite you to be part of a motivated and agile Qualys engineering team responsible for developing high-end Cloud based Security Solutions. In this position, you will be responsible for product quality and performance, building utilities for automated functionality testing and utilizing advanced testing methodologies to deliver innovative and scalable products. This position is for our fastest growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is part of a multi-continent engineering team.

Responsibilities

Manage planning and creating automated performance tests, executing tests and results to measure performance, scalability, stability, and reliability. Expertise in test planning, estimation, strategy, workload design, environment setup and defect management. Experience in application monitoring tools like AppDynamics. Experience in applications like ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Grafana, Kafka. Hands-on experience in writing and executing performance test scenarios for complex systems. Hands-on experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, performance tuning, performance monitoring in a microservices environment. Perform analysis of performance issues in pre-production and/or production environments. Hands-on experience in analyzing the performance results - capture/analyze/interpret technical data - performance metrics from application, database, OS, and network. Demonstrate ability to capture key metrics, create accurate status reports and effectively communicate to the stakeholders. Experience in any cloud environment, Docker/Kubernetes. Analyze the CPU utilization, memory usage, network usage, garbage collection to verify the performance of the applications. Identifying memory leakage, connection issues and bottleneck areas in the application. Generate performance graphs, session reports, and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Publish results and provide appropriate signoff. Prepare detailed status reports and monitor all defects and issues. Good understanding of basic DB tuning, application server tuning and common issues around performance and scalability. Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and time management skills.

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 5-8 years of work experience in the field of performance testing and test automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applications. Experience in web applications user interface and RESTful web services testing both at functional and non-functional level. Knowledge of Java, Python, NodeJS that could be used in automation frameworks. Experience in writing automation tools/framework (Selenium, JMeter). Understanding of XML, XSD, JSON, REST and SOAP and demonstrated experience with web services APIs. Good understanding of computer networks and networking concepts. Working knowledge of databases like Oracle and Cassandra. Good exposure to Unix flavored operating system.