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.

Requirements

• Exposure to other automation tools or frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Rest. Sharp, Spec. Flow)
• 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, Load. Runner 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.