Performance Automation Engineer - IDC

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Job Title: QA Performance Automation Engineer

The Opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is looking for a QA Performance Automation Engineer to join our dynamic Enterprise Software R&D team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of enterprise applications through comprehensive performance testing and analysis. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Development, QA, DevOps, Product Management, and Architecture teams to identify performance bottlenecks, validate system behavior under load, and contribute to delivering high-quality software solutions to customers. As a QA Performance Automation Engineer for the Enterprise Software R&D Unit, you will be part of the respective local department and report to the R&D Team Manager.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using Apache JMeter.
• Analyze application performance under various load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability scenarios.
• Create and execute API performance tests using Postman and integrate them into performance test workflows.
• Monitor application and infrastructure performance using Grafana and other monitoring tools.
• Identify performance bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, QA, and DevOps teams to diagnose and resolve performance-related issues.
• Analyze performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations for system optimization.
• Prepare detailed performance test reports with findings, trends, risks, and recommendations.
• Participate in test planning, requirement reviews, and system architecture discussions from a performance perspective.
• Continuously improve performance testing processes, frameworks, and automation capabilities.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable quality standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

Must have:

• Required bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field with 3 to 6 years of experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache JMeter.
• Experience designing and executing Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance, and Scalability tests.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman.
• Hands-on experience with Grafana for monitoring and performance analysis.
• Strong understanding of application performance concepts, methodologies, metrics, and bottleneck analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of SQL and database performance analysis.

Good to have:

• Experience with message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of CI/CD integration, Linux, monitoring tools, and performance test automation will be a plus.

More About Us:

Excited about a new opportunity? If this sounds like you, we would like to see your application. Join us in building highly scalable and reliable enterprise software solutions that create value for customers worldwide.

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