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We are hiring in Europe!
🟢 At Dev.Pro, a US-based outsourced software development company, we're looking for contractors to join our global team of IT professionals helping tech companies scale their business through software engineering expertise. Operating as a remote-first company, our experts work across 55+ countries on five continents, giving us the flexibility and skillset to deliver high-quality engineering for projects of any size or complexity.
We invite a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our collaborative team. In this role, you'll lead performance testing for complex cloud-based systems, helping ensure their performance, scalability, and resilience. You’ll design performance-testing approaches, analyze system behavior across the stack, identify root causes of performance issues, and recommend improvements.
🟩 What's in it for you:
Lead performance testing for complex cloud-based systems and architectures
Solve challenging performance problems across application, infrastructure, and cloud layers
Help shape performance practices while sharing your expertise with other engineers
✅ Is that you?
4-7 years of experience in software testing, test automation, performance testing, or performance engineering
Strong hands-on experience with performance testing, including the ability to start performance testing for a component from scratch
Strong understanding of system architecture and how application, infrastructure, cloud, and network components affect performance
Expertise in performance analysis, including network latency tuning, caching strategies, and database connection pooling
Experience with capacity planning and cost-vs-performance analysis, with FinOps awareness
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate performance issues and determine their root causes
Programming or scripting skills, preferably with Python or Scala
Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform
Strong technical communication and collaboration skills
Strong client and stakeholder management skills and ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear performance-testing plans
Technical leadership skills and experience mentoring junior and/or intermediate engineers
Upper-Intermediate+ English level
Desirable:
Experience with AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS X-Ray, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Aurora/DynamoDB Performance Insights, AWS Compute Optimizer
Experience with Distributed Gatling Enterprise, k6 Cloud, Gremlin/Chaos Mesh
Experience with OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog APM, or Prometheus/Grafana
Relevant certifications/courses, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect – Professional, SRE Fundamentals, or Advanced Cloud Systems Performance & Profiling
🧩Key responsibilities and your contribution
In this role, you'll lead performance testing for complex cloud-based systems, focusing on scalability, resilience, and deep performance analysis.
Define and set up performance testing approaches for cloud-native components and architectures (microservices, serverless, containers)
Test and validate cloud elasticity, auto-scaling policies, failover, and self-healing mechanisms under peak load
Perform deep-dive root-cause analysis (heap dumps, thread dumps, memory leak identification, and database query optimization)
Establish Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, SLOs, and Error Budgets with product managers
Translate business and technical requirements into performance-testing plans, defining testing scope, test scenarios, and relevant metrics
Analyze performance results and system behavior to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes, and recommend improvements
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