Performance Test Engineer – mississauga

PrecisionERP/IT is recruiting for Performance Test Engineer for upcoming contract assignment starting beginning of Dec 2025 for initial 6-7 month to start.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Develop an overall business case for a platform level Performance Test Program

· Define Non- functional/ Performance Test Strategy at a Program level

· Authors Performance strategy and test plans

· Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks

· Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements

· Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance

· Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites

· Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness

· Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance – validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements

· Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution

· Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.

· Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.

· Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana (K6), Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.

· Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.

· Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics

· Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools

– Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.

· Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required

· Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.

· Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance

Skills:

· Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar

· Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting

· Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net

· Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.

· Cloud Performance Testing: Experience using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.

· Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.

· Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus

· Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team

· Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities

· Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance

· Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing

· Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going

· Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools

· 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)

· Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools

Experience:

· 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience

· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment

· 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience

· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies

· 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure