Senior Load testing SDET - 300055

Job Title: Senior Performance/Load testing SDET

Location: Pune, India

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in QA automation with at least 3 years in a performance
testing role.

• Strong hands -on experience with performance/load testing tools is required.

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks for web and
API testing.

• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud -based test
execution environments.

• Excellent coordination and communication skills to work effectively across time
zones and teams.

• Experience in triaging production issues and driving cross -functional collaboration.

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and quality engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to other automation tools or frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress,
RestSharp, SpecFlow)

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for build and test
automation.

• Strong analytical and problem -solving mindset.

• Experience working in distributed global teams.

• Ownership mindset, Excellent communications skills.

• Proactively looking to optimize automation and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement end -to -end performance testing strategies, including load,
stress, soak, spike, volume, and concurrency testing.
• Develop robust performance scripts using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust,
LoadRunner or equivalent.
• Define performance KPIs (latency, throughput, error rates, CPU/memory utilization,
SLAs)
• Create realistic workload models based on production traffic patterns and usage
analytics.
• Build scalable automated performance test suites integrated with CI/CD.
• Collaborate closely with onsite engineering teams and understand the load testing
requirements C come up with performance testing strategies.
• Monitor performance automation results, identify regressions early, and coordinate
and engineering and QA teams to resolve issues promptly.
• Participate in production incident triage from QA standpoint – jump on calls as
needed, lead automation -related root cause analysis, and ensure follow up actions
are taken (Adding the automation for bug).
• Review, design, and optimize automation frameworks using C# and Playwright,
ensuring they are maintainable, scalable, and efficient.
• Drive test data management and environment readiness to support automated
testing.
• Track automation of health metrics and proactively identify process improvements
to reduce failures and execution time.
• Mentor and guide offshore automation engineers, providing technical oversight and
alignment with overall QA strategy.