Senior Performance Engineer

We at Coforge are seeking a hands-on Senior Performance Engineer to drive in-sprint performance engineering (shift-left) for complex, distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• In‑sprint Performance Engineering: Embed performance NFRs into user stories; define acceptance criteria; create lightweight tests.
• Workload Modeling & Test Design.
• Test Authoring & Execution using JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Observability & RCA using Splunk and APM tools.
• Performance Tuning across application, database, and infrastructure.
• Automation & Tooling using PowerShell and GitHub Actions.
• Capacity Planning and SLO validation.
• Production Readiness and SRE partnership.
• Reporting & Governance.
• AI in SDLC & Production Support.

Required Skills

• 8–12 years of hands-on performance engineering experience.
• Strong expertise with JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Advanced Splunk and APM experience.
• Proficiency in PowerShell automation.
• Strong Git/GitHub experience.
• Deep understanding of performance KPIs and bottleneck analysis.
• Knowledge of microservices, REST/gRPC, databases, caching.
• Familiarity with Agile.

Preferred Skills

• APM & tracing tools.
• SQL and NoSQL tuning.
• Networking and protocol optimization.
• Cloud & Containers.
• Service Virtualization.
• AI/AIOps automation.
• Security & Resilience testing.
• Scripting in Groovy/Java/Python.