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Job Description
As an Applications & Systems Performance QA Engineer, you will be part of a motivated engineering team. You will be working on the Qualys’ "Next-generation Platform & Middleware". Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing tools to benchmark middleware and platform. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys’ next generation Micro-Services based technology platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.
Role and responsibilities:
- Strong hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar performance tools.
- Experience in workload modeling, test planning, execution, and analysis.
- Expertise in performance benchmarking, stress, load, endurance, and scalability testing.
- Strong knowledge of application monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
- Experience in identifying bottlenecks across application, database, API, and infrastructure layers.
- Good understanding of Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with API performance testing and distributed systems.
- Strong SQL and database performance analysis skills.
- Ability to analyze JVM, memory, CPU, thread dumps, and GC behavior.
- Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate with Dev, QA, SRE, and Product teams for performance improvements.
- Exposure to production monitoring and performance tuning is preferred.
- Good communication, ownership, and leadership skills.
Skills Required
- Strong hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar performance-testing tools
- Experience in workload modeling, test planning, test execution, and analysis
- Expertise in performance benchmarking, stress, load, endurance, and scalability testing
- Strong knowledge of application monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk
- Experience identifying bottlenecks across application, database, API, and infrastructure layers
- Understanding of microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with API performance testing and distributed systems
- Strong SQL and database performance analysis skills
- Ability to analyze JVM, memory, CPU, thread dumps, and garbage-collection behavior
- Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to collaborate with development, QA, SRE, and product teams
- Exposure to production monitoring and performance tuning
- Good communication, ownership, and leadership skills
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qualys and has not been reviewed or approved by Qualys.
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits costs are widely viewed as low for employees and dependents, with healthcare often described as almost fully paid for. Feedback suggests this affordability helps offset perceptions of lower base pay in some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are broad, including multiple medical plan options, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, and disability insurance. Benefits are described as “pretty amazing” or “great,” reinforcing perceived quality and coverage depth.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
