Performance Test, Senior Engineer

Job Summary

The Performance Test, Senior Engineer at Master Works leads performance testing efforts for enterprise applications, focusing on performance engineering, workload modeling, and test automation to ensure scalable, high-performance solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create and update performance test strategies, roadmaps, standards, templates, and quality gates.
• Analyze business volumes, usage patterns, architecture, and nonfunctional requirements to develop realistic workload models.
• Plan and conduct various performance tests including load, stress, endurance, scalability, capacity, spike, and volume tests across web, mobile back ends, APIs, integrations, and digital services.
• Design, develop, review, and maintain performance test scripts and reusable components with parameterization and correlation.
• Define requirements for test environments, monitoring, data, access, and service virtualization, coordinating with DevOps and infrastructure teams.
• Correlate monitoring data from client, server, database, network, container, and applications to identify bottlenecks and root causes.
• Assess performance metrics such as response time, throughput, concurrency, error rate, resource use, capacity, and SLA compliance, providing technical recommendations.
• Integrate performance tests and thresholds into delivery pipelines and establish baseline and trend reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• At least 8 years of software testing experience, including 4 years of hands-on performance testing/engineering and technical or team leadership.
• Advanced skills in performance test scripting, scenario design, correlation, parameterization, execution control, analysis, and diagnostics.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, REST/SOAP APIs, web services, authentication, distributed systems, databases, networks, and common performance bottlenecks.
• Ability to create workload models from production or forecast data and define measurable non-functional acceptance criteria.
• Experience integrating performance tests with continuous delivery pipelines and source control.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, stakeholder management, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Professional English communication skills; Arabic is a plus.
• Preferred experience with enterprise test management, service virtualization, container-platform monitoring, observability, and enterprise API gateways.
• Preferred experience with mobile back-end performance, cloud/container platforms, resilience/failure testing, and performance-capacity planning.
• Preferred relevant certifications in performance testing, software testing, Agile, or DevOps.
• Preferred experience in government, regulated, or large-scale digital-service environments.

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