Senior Performance Test Engineer
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For our global client – technology company focused on biometrics, security, cloud and IoT based solutions – we are searching for a suitable candidate on the position of:
Senior Performance Test Engineer
Job description:
- Design, implement, and maintain performance testing frameworks and automated test suites for complex distributed systems.
- Lead performance analysis efforts, identifying system bottlenecks, conducting root-cause analysis, and partnering with engineering teams on remediation.
- Develop realistic performance test scenarios based on production usage patterns, business requirements, and architectural constraints.
- Generate high-quality performance reports with actionable recommendations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Establish and enforce performance standards, SLAs, and best practices across teams.
- Contribute to the design and enhancement of performance test frameworks, tools, and pipelines.
- Work with architects and engineers to define performance criteria, SLAs, and workload models.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in performance testing or engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major performance testing tool (JMeter, Gatling, K6, Locust, LoadRunner, etc.).
- Solid programming or scripting skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API performance, databases, caching, and networking fundamentals.
- Proven ability to analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements.
- Experience testing high-traffic or mission-critical applications.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate technical findings clearly.
Advantage:
- Experience with APM/observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana).
- Experience with containerized and cloud-native environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Background in SRE, capacity planning, chaos engineering, or reliability optimization.
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar), or microservice architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo).
- Prior mentoring or leadership experience in a performance engineering team.
- Contributions to open-source performance tools or libraries.
Benefits:
- Yearly bonus
- 5 weeks paid holidays
- Daily meal allowance full cover by company – 125CZK per day
- 2 Sick days paid
- Paid sick leave (PN) – call up 80% of sickpay
- CIP – Yearly bonus 5% of gross salary
- Private / Capital life insurance after one year of employment
- Pension 5% of the base salary
- Sport allowance – 236 CZK/week
- Flexible working hours
- Home Office – 2-3 days per week
- Great location – Prague 8 – Karlin
- No open space – own office (2-4 people)