- 8 to 10 years of hands on performance engineering or performance testing experience

- Architect / consultant to review existing performance testing processes

- Assess current practices and identify gaps or inefficiencies

- Define improvement areas based on best practices

- Provide clear, actionable recommendations

- Take ownership of implementing the proposed improvements

- Ensure measurable and sustained performance enhancements

- Strong proficiency with JMeter (test plans, correlation, parameterization, assertions, Groovy/Beanshell scripting, distributed load execution)

- Experience designing and executing load, stress, soak, spike, and scalability tests

- Ability to define and track performance metrics such as latency, throughput, error rates, and concurrency

- Good working knowledge of Git for branching, merging, pull requests, and repository management

- Familiarity with APM tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, or Azure Monitor

- Understanding of REST APIs, JSON payload structures, authentication, and use of tools such as Postman

- Ability to prepare and manage test data, identify environment gaps, and work through technical dependencies

- Understanding of root cause analysis, telemetry review, debugging issues, and identifying bottlenecks across app, service, and DB layers.

- Organized and detail oriented with strong analytical and problem solving abilities

- Ability to produce clear performance reports with insights, charts, trends, and recommended optimizations

- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with developers, architects, DevOps, QA, and product teams

- Good communication skills to articulate findings, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non technical partners

- Self starter with the ability to take ownership of tasks, work independently, and proactively identify performance risks or improvements