Senior Performance Test Engineer to perform test simulations and performance analysis - RQ00131

Location: Toronto (Hybrid - 2x per week on-site)

Duration: 6-month contract (high chance of extension)

Hours: 7.25 per day

Start Date - May 5, 2025

End Date - Oct 31, 2025

Job Details:

• Authors Performance strategy and test plans
• Define Non- functional Strategy
• Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks
• Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
• Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites
• Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness
• Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements
• Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution
• Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.
• Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.
• Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.
• Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics
• Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools
• Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.
• Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance

Skills:

• Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing
• Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting
• Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net
• Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
• Cloud Performance Testing: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.
• Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.
• Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus
• Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team
• Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities
• Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance
• Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing
• Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going
• Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools
• 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)
• Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools