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Senior Performance Test Engineer

IBM

Quality Assurance

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on Mar 27, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Performance Test Engineer, you will own the performance engineering and testing of our products in our post-quantum cryptography, while also contributing to QA leadership. You will:

- Design, plan, and execute performance test strategies across load, stress, soak, spike, volume, and scalability scenarios.

- Develop and maintain automated performance test suites and reusable frameworks using industry-standard tools.

- Define/refine performance KPIs, baselines, SLAs/SLOs and monitor trends release-over-release.

- Analyze system and application metrics to identify bottlenecks across application, data, and infrastructure layers.

- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to recommend and validate performance optimizations.

- Integrate performance tests into CI/CD with automated thresholds and regression detection.

- Leverage observability tools, such as Grafana/Prometheus for dashboards, alerts, and deep dives.

- Produce clear, actionable performance reports and present insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Contribute to QA leadership: help shape test strategy, structure suites in TestRail, mentor QA engineers, support triage and release readiness.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- 5+ years of professional experience in software testing, with strong specialization in performance testing/engineering.

- Hands-on expertise with JMeter and/or LoadRunner; familiarity with Gatling, k6, or Locust is a plus.

- Demonstrated capability in API and backend/microservices performance testing, including workload modeling and data management.

- Strong understanding of throughput, latency analysis, concurrency, capacity/scalability, and bottleneck diagnosis.

- Observability: practical experience with Grafana and Prometheus; working knowledge of Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or ELK.

- Scripting/programming for automation and data processing (Python / Java / JavaScript / Bash).

- Experience integrating performance suites with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

- Hands-on use of profiling tools.

- Awareness of performance considerations on containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes).

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into business-impact recommendations.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Experience designing scalable, reusable performance test harnesses and supporting libraries.

- Background in reliability/performance incident analysis and capacity planning.

- Experience contributing to QA process improvements, test strategy, and quality governance.

- Prior mentoring/coaching experience or interest in stepping into broader QA leadership responsibilities.

- Experience with test management tools (e.g., TestRail) and traceability from requirements to test coverage.

Years of Experience:
5 - 10

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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