Senior Performance Test Engineer (NFT - JMeter & ReadyAPI)

Senior QA Performance Tester

Location: Toronto, ON

Work Model: Hybrid (3 Days WFO)

Duration: 6–12 Months

Mandatory Requirement

DO NOT SUBMIT JUNIOR CANDIDATES

• Minimum 10+ years of experience required
  
• Strong hands-on NFT / Load Testing experience using JMeter is mandatory
  

Job Description

Role Description

• Design, develop, and maintain robust JMeter test frameworks to support large-scale performance, load, stress, and endurance testing.
  
• Create realistic workload models and load profiles aligned with business scenarios, SLAs, and production traffic patterns.
  
• Execute end-to-end performance test cycles, including test planning, execution, monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
  
• Identify performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and system constraints through detailed analysis and root cause investigation.
  
• Leverage enterprise monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Kafka to track system behavior and diagnose performance issues across distributed systems.
  
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and architecture teams to recommend performance tuning and optimization strategies.
  
• Produce comprehensive performance reports, including KPIs such as response time, throughput, and error rate, and present actionable insights to stakeholders.
  
• Support CI/CD integration of performance tests to enable continuous performance validation.
  
• Ensure applications meet defined performance benchmarks, scalability targets, and reliability standards before production deployment.
  

Core Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of overall QE/QA testing experience.
  
• Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in load testing using Apache JMeter.
  
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in API testing using ReadyAPI.
  
• Strong experience in:
  • Load Testing
    
  • Stress Testing
    
  • Spike Testing
    
  • Endurance Testing
    
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Apache JMeter
    
  • AppDynamics
    
  • Splunk
    
  • Kafka
    
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Thread dumps
    
  • Heap analysis
    
  • Log correlation
    
• Experience in:
  • JMeter scripting
    
  • Parameterization
    
  • Correlation
    
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Shift-left performance testing.
  
• Banking and Payments domain experience preferred.