Performance Test Engineer

About Client:

Our Client is a global IT services company headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1996, with a revenue of $1.8B, with 35,000+ associates worldwide, specializes in digital engineering, and IT services company helping clients modernize their technology infrastructure, adopt cloud and AI solutions, and accelerate innovation. It partners with major firms in banking, healthcare, telecom, and media.

Our Client is known for combining deep industry expertise with agile development practices, enabling scalable and cost-effective digital transformation. The company operates in over 50 locations across more than 25 countries, has delivery centers in Asia, Europe, and North America and is backed by Baring Private Equity Asia.

Job Title : Performance Test Enginee

rKey Skills : Performance Test,Java,Microservices,Apache JMeter,K6,New Reli

cExperience : 7-12 Year

sLocation: Pun

eEducation Qualification : Any Graduatio

nWork Mode : Hybri

dEmployment Type : Contract to Hir

eNotice Period : Immediate - 10 Days

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Job Description

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Engineer to lead performance testing strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across our enterprise Java-based platforms and APIs. This role is critical to ensuring that Wiley’s content and publishing platforms perform reliably at sca

le.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in performance engineering with strong analytical and communication skills — identifying bottlenecks, designing testing frameworks, interpreting results, and delivering actionable recommendations to engineering and product leaders

hip.Key Responsibili

• tiesIdentify performance risks and areas of concern across Java applications, REST APIs, and microservi
• ces.Develop and own performance testing strategies, plans, and frameworks aligned to business and engineering go
• als.Design, build, and execute performance, load, stress, and soak tests for complex enterprise applicati
• ons.Analyze test results and system metrics to diagnose bottlenecks, memory leaks, latency issues, and throughput constrai
• nts.Produce clear, detailed performance reports and present findings and recommendations to engineering teams and stakehold
• ers.Collaborate with developers, architects, and DevOps to drive remediation of identified performance iss
• ues.Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous performance validat
• ion.Define and maintain performance baselines, SLOs, and acceptance thresho
• lds.Provide guidance on performance best practices across the software development lifecy
• cle.Stay current on performance engineering tools, trends, and techniques relevant to publishing and research platfo

rms.Required Qualificat

• ions5+ years of performance engineering or performance testing experie
• nce.Deep expertise in performance testing

of:· Java applications (Java

11+)· Spring Boot microserv

ices· RESTful

• APIsProficiency with performance testing tools such

as:· Apache JM

eter· Gat

ling

· k6· Lo

• custStrong ability to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes through profiling, thread analysis, and heap analy
• sis.Experience developing performance testing strategies for complex, distributed, multi-tier applicati
• ons.Proven ability to generate comprehensive performance reports and make clear, data-driven recommendations to engineering and business stakehold
• ers.Experience with observability and monitoring tools such

as:· Gra

fana· Promet

heus· Dat

adog· New R

elic· OpenTelem

• etryExperience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or simil
• ar).Hands-on experience with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes (K8s) for deploying and testing containerized applications in performance environme
• nts.Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and its impact on application performance (ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gatew
• ay).Knowledge of publishing, research, or content platform environments and their performance characterist
• ics.Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication ski