Locust Performance Test Engineer
- Trantor
- 6 - 11 years
- Mohali, Chandigarh
- 13 days ago
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Job Description
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Performance Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, executing, and enhancing performance testing strategies for modern distributed systems. This role demands hands-on expertise in Locust with Python, microservices architecture, cloud-native deployment, and SQL optimization. If you have a knack for identifying performance bottlenecks and a drive to ensure software scalability and reliability, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain Locust performance scripts using Python
- Design scenarios simulating real-world usage and traffic patterns
- Perform script enhancement and parameterization to ensure robustness and reusability
- Execute performance test scripts in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes
- Manage Locust execution on Kubernetes clusters
- Automate Locust script execution through CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with DevOps and Development teams to integrate performance testing into the CI/CD lifecycle
- Analyze test results and generate performance reports, including throughput, latency, response time, and error rates
- Identify application bottlenecks, perform root cause analysis, and provide tuning recommendations
- Work with AWS (or other cloud platforms) to deploy, scale, and monitor performance tests in cloud-native environments
- Write, execute, and optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures for performance testing back-end systems
- Hands-on with SQL Server Must be able to read, modify, and tune stored procedures
- Exposure to Postgres DB is a plus
- Develop and maintain performance test strategies and test plans
- Define KPIs, SLAs, workload models, and success criteria
- Guide the team on best practices and drive performance engineering mindset
Must-Have Qualifications:
- Proven experience with Locust and Python for performance testing
- Working knowledge of Microservices
- Hands-on with Kubernetes and Docker particularly with running Locust in containerized environments
- Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong AWS (or cloud) experience, with performance test deployments on cloud infrastructure
- Solid understanding of SQL Server including stored procedures, query tuning, and DB performance analysis
- Strong background in performance test planning, strategy creation, and execution
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Exposure to Postgres DB
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
- Basic knowledge of application performance monitoring (APM) tools
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: Performance Testing Engineer
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: TrantorLocation(s): Mohali, Chandigarh
Keyskills: Performance Testing Ci/Cd JMeter Locust Python Load Runner Load Testing Performance Testing Tool
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