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Performance Test Engineer

IBM

Software Engineering, Quality Assurance

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on Apr 2, 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

We are seeking a talented and motivated Performance Test Engineer to join our dynamic team. The Performance Test Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance. You will work closely with the development and quality assurance teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks and ensure a seamless user experience. You need to be versatile, display leadership qualities and open minded to take on new problems that our customers face.

Essential Job Functions

Performance Testing: Plan, design, and execute performance tests to evaluate the performance and scalability of software applications.
Test Strategy: Develop performance test strategies and test plans based on project requirements.
Scripting: Create, maintain, and execute performance test scripts using industry-standard performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
Monitoring and Analysis: Monitor application performance during testing, analyze results, and identify performance bottlenecks and potential areas of improvement.
Recommendations: Provide recommendations and work with development teams to optimize the application's performance.
Reporting: Prepare and present performance test reports and findings to project stakeholders.
Automation: Contribute to the automation of performance tests for regression testing
Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the application meets performance requirements.
Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of test plans, test scripts, and test results.
Continuous Learning: Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in performance testing.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Proven experience in performance testing, including load testing, stress testing, and scalability testing.
Hands-on skills on SQL and Database performance analysis tricks and tools
Hands-on knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery and source code management (preferably GIT)
Strong proficiency in performance testing tools and scripting languages (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling).
Knowledge of software development methodologies, software architecture, and systems.
Working knowledge in Linux/Redhat and containerization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes
Working knowledge in Jenkins to create pipeline.
Knowledge of logging frameworks or ELK(Elastic, logstash, Kibana)
Good problem-solving skills and proficiency in Java , Shell
Strong scripting skills in at least one language (BASH, Java)
Ability to manage multiple projects, while ensuring that commitments and timelines are met

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with monitoring frameworks (Nagios, Prometheus, etc)
Experience with Unix/Linux commands related to system performance including top, iostat, dstat, sar, vmstat.
Experience with performance assessment tooling and technologies such as JMeter, JConsole, perf and be able to develop custom tooling.
Experience in Graphite or Grafana dashboards

Years of Experience:
2 - 4

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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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