Software Development Engineer in Test

• Own and drive performance engineering strategy for APIs, web applications, and distributed systems.
• Design and execute load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests for enterprise applications.
• Build and maintain reusable JMeter frameworks, test data strategies, and workload models.
• Analyze application, infrastructure, and database behavior under load to identify bottlenecks, capacity limits, and performance risks.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define and validate NFRs, SLAs, SLOs, and capacity targets.
• Work with observability and APM tools to diagnose performance issues across application and infrastructure layers.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and shift performance validation earlier in the SDLC.
• Support root cause analysis for performance issues using logs, metrics, traces, thread dumps, heap analysis, and system monitoring.
• Provide engineering recommendations on scalability, caching, pooling, asynchronous processing, and resource optimization.
• Partner with architects and DevOps teams to improve performance readiness for cloud-native and containerized environments.
• Contribute to performance standards, governance, and best practices within the Quality / Engineering COE.
• Support performance validation for AI/ML-enabled systems, including latency-sensitive and resource-intensive workloads.

• 2–5 years of automation experience using industry-standard tools, Selenium preferred.
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) using Java.
• Hands-on experience in microservices validation and backend testing.
• Expertise in database querying, preferred experience with Cassandra and Elastic Search.
• Experience with data frameworks and queue validation, preferred tools include Apache Kafka, Postman.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and parallel testing for scaling and faster executions using Jenkins and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Familiarity with AI tools to enhance QA productivity and automation efficiency.
• Proven ability to collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps and QA teams for release planning and execution.
• Experience in designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining test cases, tools, and automation frameworks.
• Ability to interpret functional requirements and design documents to create comprehensive test plans.
• Strong skills in defect triage and root cause analysis.
• Working knowledge of TestRail (test management) and JIRA (project tracking).
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Practical experience in Agile methodologies and sprint-based delivery.
• Soft Skills:
• Passion for quality and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Adaptability to fast-paced and evolving environments.
• Knowledge of capacity planning, resilience testing, and failover validation
• Experience working in Agile / DevOps / SRE-driven environments

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