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Performance Test Engineer

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IBM

Performance Test Engineer

YesterdayPune, India

Viewed on April 4, 2025

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

  • Design performance test plans, test cases and automation performance test cases for a given release.
  • Develop and implement automated performance test frameworks and scripts using NodeJS, Shell scripts, Perl Scripts, and Python.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and development teams to understand product performance goals and ensure comprehensive performance test coverage.
  • Execute, analyse and generate performance reports for product functionalities.
  • Identify and analyse performance bottlenecks, and issues and provide recommendations to resolve them.
  • Participate in capacity planning activities to ensure optimal utilization of resources with high throughput.
  • Continuously validation of product performance to identify any degradation due to changes.
  • Participate in design reviews, product performance certification, and release activities to support the software development lifecycle.

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Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field. Minimum 12 years of experience, including at least 4 years of experience in performance engineering.
  • Must have:
    • Hands-on experience working with LDAP and Directory concepts including Directory Schema, Directory Structure, LDIF etc.
    • Hands-on experience with VMWare, KVM, containers and various deployment techniques
    • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, ROSA etc.) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
    • Hands-on experience with APM tools (Instana, NewRelic).
    • Conceptual understanding of different software performance metrics.
    • Experience with analysing core dumps, SQLs, explain plans and resource utilization.
    • Experience with PostgreSQL and DB2 databases.
    • Strong understanding of software development methodologies and performance testing best practices.
    • Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git), ticketing systems (e.g. Jira) and CI/CD tools.
    • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
    • The right candidate should possess strong communication skills, be a collaborative team player, is adept at independent decision-making, and is capable of providing recommendations to stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Knowledge of SCIM, Federated & Virtual Directory Concepts
  • Familiarity with database query tuning and knowledge of database administration.

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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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Client-provided location(s): Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job ID: IBM-13705
Employment Type: Other

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