Specialist Performance Engineer CX (JMeter/Blazemeter)

Job Description Performance Engineer (Senior / Specialist) Whats the role? You will design, execute, and evolve performance engineering practices across a distributed platform, ensuring systems scale reliably under real-world conditions. This role blends hands‑on testing, system analysis, and automation, with growing use of AI‑assisted tooling to improve speed and insight. How will you make an impact? • Design and execute performance, load, and scalability tests across services and systems. • Analyze throughput, latency, and system behavior under realistic usage patterns. • Identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks across application, API, and database layers. • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance and scalability early in the lifecycle. • Build and maintain performance test suites and reusable frameworks. • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation. • Define and track performance baselines, SLAs (Service Level Agreements), and key metrics. • Use AI‑assisted tools to accelerate test creation, analysis, and anomaly detection. • Contribute to best practices and standards for performance engineering across teams. • Support production investigations and provide data‑driven recommendations. Have you got what it takes? • 712 years of experience in performance testing or performance engineering. • Strong hands‑on experience with tools like JMeter, Gatling, BlazeMeter, or similar. • Solid programming skills in Java, C#, or similar. • Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, and distributed systems. • Experience analyzing system performance metrics and bottlenecks. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing workflows. • Experience with API testing and automation. • Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills. Nice to have • Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure). • Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus). • Experience with production traffic modeling and usage simulation. • Exposure to AI/LLM‑based tools for testing or analysis. Tech stack (expected exposure) • Performance tools: JMeter, Gatling, BlazeMeter • Java or C# • CI/CD tools (Jenkins or equivalent) • Git/GitHub • API tools (Postman or similar) • Observability tools (Grafana or similar) • Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) Req ID: 10553 Reporting into: Tech Manager, Engineering, CX Role Type: Individual Contributor Job Classification Industry: Software Product Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA Role Category: Software Development Role: Search Engineer Employment Type: Full time Contact Details: Company: NiCE Location(s): Pune Ability to work in a team environment with members of varying skill levels. Highly motivated. Learns quickly.