Performance Test Engineer

Role : Performance Test Engineer

Location: Dubai (UAE) | 3 days office (Hybrid)Duration : Contract 1 yearOnboarding – Immediately or 1 month Total Position – 1Skills – Performance testing & engineering, Load runner, Gatling, APM tools like App dynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus. 5+ Years of experiencePerformance Strategy & Architecture: Proven experience in designing and executing performance and non-functional (testing strategies for complex systems, including architecture reviews, realistic workload modelling, and validation of scalability, resilience, and operability across enterprise platforms and shared services.Performance Testing Tools: Skilled in performance testing tools (e.g.

LoadRunner, Gatling) and client-side performance analysis (e.g. Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest) to assess end to end user experience and non-functional behaviour across diverse environments.Profiling & Optimisation: Proficient in root cause analysis and debugging (e.g. Your Kit, J Profiler), with experience tuning applications and identifying platform, infrastructure, or configuration-related constraints impacting efficiency and scalability.Infrastructure & Cloud: Experience with on premises, hybrid, and cloud environments (especially AWS); adept at performance troubleshooting across Linux/Unix and Windows; working knowledge of how compute, storage, virtualisation, containerisation, and orchestration platforms influence system stability and performance.Monitoring & Observability: Proficient with monitoring and observability practices and tools (APM, logging, tracing, OpenTelemetry), enabling validation of performance, reliability, and availability across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.Database Performance: Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases; skilled at diagnosing and resolving database performance issues while considering downstream impacts on platform services and overall system behaviour.DevOps & CI/CD: Familiar with DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding performance and non-functional quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, and aligning testing approaches with modern delivery and infrastructure as code models.Chaos Engineering: Familiar with chaos engineering principles; able to design and run controlled failure experiments to assess resilience and fault tolerance across applications, platforms, networks, and supporting services; experience with tools like Harness Chaos or Gremlin is a plus.