69,722 Lead Performance Engineer jobs in India

Scope

• We are building a highly resilient, scalable, and world-class SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) using modern technologies.
• To achieve this, we need a strong Performance Engineering team within our Product Development (PD) organization.
• As a Performance Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the team, ensuring application performance, and proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design and execution of comprehensive performance test strategies across applications.
• Develop test scenarios and guide junior engineers in creating efficient performance scripts.
• Execute end-to-end performance testing, analyze results, and resolve bottlenecks.
• Collaborate closely with developers and DevOps to address regressions and optimize code for performance.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, features, and technologies through proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Prepare and present detailed performance reports, effectively communicating insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks and utilities to improve efficiency.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 8–10.5 years in Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Expertise: Deep knowledge of performance testing methodologies with strong expertise in JMeter.
• Diagnostics: Skilled in analyzing thread dumps, GC logs, and heap dumps to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Cloud and other tools: Experience with major cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Kafka, Splunk and AppDynamics
• Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
• Operating Systems: Experience with Windows, Linux, and Unix environments.
• Databases & APIs: Good understanding of REST APIs and experience with AzureSQL Server databases.
• AI skills: Exposure to Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies.
• Agile Methodologies & Tools: Comfortable working in Agile environments with strong expertise in Jira, a solid understanding of the performance engineering lifecycle, and active participation in Agile ceremonies.
• Capacity Planning & FinOps: Strong understanding of FinOps principles with hands-on experience in capacity planning, cost optimization, and resource utilization exercises on Cloud
• Domain: Prior experience in enterprise Supply Chain applications like TMS, WMS, OMS or e-commerce platforms is a strong plus

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Scope

• We are building a highly resilient, scalable, and world-class SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) using modern technologies.
• To achieve this, we need a strong Performance Engineering team within our Product Development (PD) organization.
• As a Performance Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the team, ensuring application performance, and proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks.

What You will Do

• Lead the design and execution of comprehensive performance test strategies across applications.
• Develop test scenarios and guide junior engineers in creating efficient performance scripts.
• Execute end-to-end performance testing, analyze results, and resolve bottlenecks.
• Collaborate closely with developers and DevOps to address regressions and optimize code for performance.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, features, and technologies through proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Prepare and present detailed performance reports, effectively communicating insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks and utilities to improve efficiency.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.

What We are Looking For

• Experience: 810.5 years in Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Expertise: Deep knowledge of performance testing methodologies with strong expertise in JMeter.
• Diagnostics: Skilled in analyzing thread dumps, GC logs, and heap dumps to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Cloud and other tools: Experience with major cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Kafka, Splunk and AppDynamics
• Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
• Operating Systems: Experience with Windows, Linux, and Unix environments.
• Databases & APIs: Good understanding of REST APIs and experience with AzureSQL Server databases.
• AI skills: Exposure to Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies.
• Agile Methodologies & Tools: Comfortable working in Agile environments with strong expertise in Jira, a solid understanding of the performance engineering lifecycle, and active participation in Agile ceremonies.
• Capacity Planning & FinOps: Strong understanding of FinOps principles with hands-on experience in capacity planning, cost optimization, and resource utilization exercises on Cloud
• Domain: Prior experience in enterprise Supply Chain applications like TMS, WMS, OMS or e-commerce platforms is a strong plus.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop proven grasp of the DTCC Software Delivery process, Performance Test Engineering framework, CoE (Center of Excellence) Engagement process as well as understanding of tech-stack (tools and technologies) to perform day-to-day job
• Prepare, maintain, and implement performance test scenarios based on non-functional requirements and follow standard DTCC testing guidelines
• Automate performance test scenarios by using current automated functional and performance test scripts in compliance with the non-functional framework
• Maintain traceability across Non-Functional Requirements, Performance Test Scenarios and Defects
• Review of performance test scenarios from both a technical and business perspective with collaborators, such as development teams and business
• Track defects to closure, report test results, continuously supervise execution achievements and call out as required
• Contribute to the technical aspects of Delivery Pipeline adoption for performance testing and improve adoption
• Identify environmental and data requirements; collaborate with Development and Testing teams to manage and maintain environment and data
• Provide mentorship to team members related to performance test coverage, performance test scenarios, and non-functional requirements
• Develop a basic understanding of the product being delivered including architecture considerations and technical design of the supported applications in relations to the performance and scalability.
• Work with Development and Architecture teams and find opportunities to improve the test coverage. Share suggestions for performance improvements
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; raises appropriately

**Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Expertise in LINUX/UNIX, shell scripting
• Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system and Administering the MQ systems
• Experience with understanding multi-technology end-to-end testing (distributed and mainframe systems)
• Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest)
• Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including: Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Key Performance and volume metrics relationship modeling
• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle
• Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• Experience in the financial services industry is good to have

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of performance engineering experience with automated and manual testing to include on prem and in the cloud (preferably GCP
• Will be responsible for providing direction on testing best practices
• Will be responsible for working on distributed testing in GCP
• Will be building test suites
• Making recommendation for testing tools
• Experience with performance testing tools such as Neoload, K6, and Locust
• Python scripting for writing unit tests
• Ability to effectively communicate across offshore, nearshore, and onshore teams

Plusses:

• Previous ecommerce experience
• Previous Home Depot experience

Day to Day:

We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior Performance Engineer
with 5–10 years of experience in both automated and manual performance testing across on-premises and cloud environments (preferably Google Cloud Platform). This role will be instrumental in shaping performance testing strategies, building scalable test suites, and driving distributed testing initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively across offshore, nearshore, and onshore teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and define
  performance testing best practices
  across the organization.
• Design and execute
  distributed performance tests
  in
  Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  .
• Build and maintain
  automated test suites
  for performance validation.
• Evaluate and recommend
  performance testing tools
  and frameworks.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with
  offshore, nearshore, and onshore teams
  to ensure alignment and execution of testing strategies.
• Utilize tools such as
  NeoLoad, k6, and Locust
  to simulate and analyze system performance.
• Develop and maintain
  Python scripts
  for unit and performance testing.
• Provide detailed performance analysis and reporting to stakeholders.

Position: Performance Testing Engineer

Join our dynamic team at Talent Worx as a Performance Testing Engineer. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the performance and scalability of our applications. You will be responsible for designing and executing a detailed performance testing strategy to identify and solve performance issues before they impact users.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, execute, and maintain performance testing plans and test cases to assess the performance of applications under various load conditions.
• Utilize performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar to simulate user activity and evaluate application responsiveness.
• Analyze performance test results and provide actionable insights to the development team for optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application architecture and identify performance requirements.
• Create detailed documentation and reports on testing outcomes, including performance metrics and recommendations.
• Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning efforts for application infrastructures.
• Monitor applications in production to ensure they meet performance standards and respond to alerts proactively.

Key Requirements:

• 4-7 years of experience in Performance Testing with a focus on load, stress, and scalability testing.
• Proficient in performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience with performance monitoring tools is a plus.
• Solid understanding of web applications, APIs, and underlying architectures.
• Ability to write and execute scripts in languages like Java, Python, or similar.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present findings to stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Opportunity to collaborate directly with diverse clients, enhancing professional growth and building strong business relationships."

About Company :

They balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

About Client:

Our client is a global digital solutions and technology consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company generates annual revenue of over $4.29 billion (₹35,517 crore), reflecting a 4.4% year-over-year growth in USD terms. It has a workforce of around 86,000 professionals operating in more than 40 countries and serves a global client base of over 700 organizations.

Our client operates across several major industry sectors, including Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Manufacturing & Consumer. In the past year, the company achieved a net profit of $53.4 million (₹4,584.6 crore), marking a 1.4% increase from the previous year. It also recorded a strong order inflow of $5 6 billion, up 15.7% year-over-year, highlighting growing demand across its service lines.

Key focus areas include Digital Transformation, Enterprise AI, Data & Analytics, and Product Engineering—reflecting its strategic commitment to driving innovation and value for clients across industries.

Job Title: Performance Testing.

·Location: Pune(Hybrid)

· Experience: 5.5+

· Job Type : Contract to hire.

· Notice Period:- Immediate joiners.

Job description

8 years of experience in Performance Testing and Engineering

2 years of experience in leading a team of atleast 3 member Should have experience working in larger engagement Where the total team size is 500

Worked on minimum two performance Testing tool and any of the APM tool

Sound knowledge in various Non Functional Testing Failover testing is a must

Requirement Gathering and Analysis Ability to understand NFRs and translate them into specific Design and Testing goals Effectively capture and build a strategy to validate NFRs Test Plan and test Strategy Ability to effectively execute the testing strategy

Participate in all phases of the Performance TestingEngineering lifecycle Requirement Gathering Design Development Scripting Execution Analysis Troubleshooting Reporting

Leverage Application performance management and profiling tools to identify isolate and resolve performance bottlenecks

Coordinate with all stakeholdersteams to identify performance bottlenecks across all tiers components layers

Analysis and resolution of critical and complex application issues like crashes hung threads memory leaks etc

Ensure test scripts and test scenarios simulate real world scenarios Data driven script development and test execution

Provide and present organization level reports to stake holders like WSR MMR QBR

Determines requirements for test environments test data test infrastructure and tools and coordinates with Project Teams

Typically manages a project with a team size ranging from 3 to 6 people

Experiences on Performance Engineering profiling and tuning experience including experience working with APM tools such HP Diagnostics DynaTrace App dynamics etc

Should have performance monitoring experience across Windows and UNIX platforms with OpenView Sitescope Wily or similar tools

Ability to understand and analyze AWR reports

Ability to adapt and learn quickly in a complex and dynamic environment

Strong written oral presentation skills

Must be able to work both independently and within a group

Excellent technical interpersonal analytical and problemsolving skills

Should have experience working in Agile project

Skills

Mandatory Skills :
Performance Testing -Analysis (Analysing test Results, Server Stats,Bottlenecks, tuning and recommendations),Performance Testing -Emerging Tools (K6,Gatling),Performance Testing -Execution (Baseline, Load, Endurance, Stress, Volume,Network, DR, Failover, Spike, Saas based/COTS),Performance Testing -NFR Gathering (Log Analyis, User Interview, Reverse Engineering, NFR Documentation),Performance Testing -Planning (Strategy, Approach, Estimation, Workload Modeling, Risk and Issue Management),Performance Testing -Performance Engineering,Jmeter, Blazemeter -Performance Testing,Neoload -Performance Testing,LoadRunner-Performance Testing

P1,C3,TSTS

Experience Atleast 5 to 8+ years relevant technical work experience, with following key responsibilities

Design and develop performance test scripts using Apache JMeter or equivalent tools.

Create robust test scenarios including load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability tests.

Collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand performance goals.

Build reusable and modular JMeter components for different test scenarios.

Simulate user loads and analyze system behavior under different loads and conditions.

Monitor server and application metrics using tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana, or Kibana.

Collect and analyze performance data, identify performance bottlenecks, and provide tuning recommendations.

Generate clear and concise performance reports with actionable insights.

Participate in performance tuning and capacity planning efforts with the DevOps and Infra teams.

Maintain and enhance performance test frameworks and CI/CD integrations.

Technical Skills

3+ years of hands-on experience with JMeter scripting for web, API, or database testing.

Strong understanding of HTTP protocol, REST APIs, cookies, session management, and thread modeling.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Maven, etc.) and version control systems (GitHub, Bitbucket).

Understanding of load generators, test data strategy, and environment setup.

Ability to read and interpret application logs, stack traces, and system metrics for troubleshooting.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have Skills

Experience with cloud-based load testing (e.g., BlazeMeter, AWS/GCP/Azure Load Testing tools).

Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Knowledge of performance testing in microservices architecture.

Familiarity with SQL queries and DB performance

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Posted On: 9 Sept 2025

Location: Noida, UP, India

Company: Iris Software

Why Join Iris?

Are you ready to do the best work of your career at one of India's Top 25 Best Workplaces in IT industry? Do you want to grow in an award-winning culture that truly values your talent and ambitions?

Join Iris Software — one of the fastest-growing IT services companies — where you own and shape your success story.

About Us

At Iris Software, our vision is to be our client's most trusted technology partner, and the first choice for the industry's top professionals to realize their full potential.

With over 4,300 associates across India, U.S.A, and Canada, we help our enterprise clients thrive with technology-enabled transformation across financial services, healthcare, transportation & logistics, and professional services.

Our work covers complex, mission-critical applications with the latest technologies, such as high-value complex Application & Product Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cloud, DevOps, Data & MLOps, Quality Engineering, and Business Automation.

Working with Us

At Iris, every role is more than a job — it's a launchpad for growth.

Our Employee Value Proposition, "Build Your Future. Own Your Journey." reflects our belief that people thrive when they have ownership of their career and the right opportunities to shape it.

We foster a culture where your potential is valued, your voice matters, and your work creates real impact. With cutting-edge projects, personalized career development, continuous learning and mentorship, we support you to grow and become your best — both personally and professionally.

Curious what it's like to work at Iris? Head to this video for an inside look at the people, the passion, and the possibilities. Watch it here.

Must haves: Jmeter, Test cases, Grafana, CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab and Delivery Leadership.

Good to have: SQL

Experience: 6-8 years of experience in performance testing, with a focus on Jmeter.

• Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Jmeter for performance testing.

• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies and tools.

• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or similar.

• Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Performance Testing:

2. Design, develop, and execute performance test plans and scripts using Jmeter

3. Analyze performance test results and provide detailed reports on system performance, bottlenecks, and recommendations for improvements.

4. Monitoring and Analysis:

5. Utilize Grafana for monitoring and visualizing performance metrics.

6. Identify performance issues and work with development teams to resolve them.

7. Collaboration & Leadership:

8. Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to integrate performance testing into the CI/CD pipeline.

9. Lead performance testing delivery : Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members on performance testing best practices & own the delivery responsibility of the team.

QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD

QA - Test Case Preparation

QA/QE - QA Automation - Performance testing (Jmeter, Loadrunner, NeoLoad etc)

DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - Grafana

DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - GitLab,Github, Bitbucket

DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - Jenkins

Database - Database Programming - SQL

Beh - Communication and collaboration

Perks and Benefits for Irisians

Iris provides world-class benefits for a personalized employee experience. These benefits are designed to support financial, health and well-being needs of Irisians for a holistic professional and personal growth. Click here to view the benefits.

• Proven experience as a Performance Engineer
• Strong knowledge of performance testing tools and methodologies i.e. Jmeter, jprofiler, gatling, stress/endurance/chaos testing.
• Experience in JMeter, Load Runner and awareness on AWS and Jenkins.