Join the team as our new Senior Software Quality Engineer - Performance Testing
Hyderabad, India | Software Quality CoE
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior SQE - Performance Testing to lead and own the end-to-end performance engineering lifecycle. The ideal candidate will contribute to defining the performance testing strategy, execute large-scale load tests, and deliver actionable insights through robust reporting and analytics. This role will be part of the Software Quality CoE, and it demands strong technical expertise, critical thinking, and the ability to make data-driven decisions.
Additionally, this role requires leveraging modern AI/LLM tools to enhance productivity in automation, performance scripting, test design, and result analysis.
What You'll Do:
- Drive the overall performance testing strategy aligned with business and product goals.
- Own the end-to-end performance testing lifecycle, including planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, and reporting.
- Design and implement scalable load, stress, endurance, and spike test scenarios.
- Develop and maintain performance test frameworks and reusable assets.
- Execute tests to validate system scalability, reliability, and stability under load.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Deliver detailed performance reports, dashboards, and analytics with actionable recommendations.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and architecture teams to resolve performance issues.
- Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation.
- Drive performance optimization initiatives and ensure SLAs/SLOs are met.
Performance Testing Strategy & Ownership
Test Design & Execution
Analysis & Reporting
Collaboration & Continuous Integration
What It Takes:
- 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering.
- Strong expertise in any of the performance testing tools (code as a test) such as Gatling, K6, Locust, or similar.
- Solid understanding of performance testing methodologies, workload modeling, and capacity planning.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar).
- Strong exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.).
- Experience analyzing system metrics (CPU, memory, I/O, network, database performance).
- Proficiency in any scripting/programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.).
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present performance insights to stakeholders.
- Ability to take ownership and make data-driven decisions in high-pressure scenarios.
- A team player who can challenge constructively and drive quality excellence.
- A strong quality mindset with attention to detail and deep curiosity to identify system limits.
- Hands-on, proactive, and continuously learning.
- Experience in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) or Digital Manufacturing domains.
- Experience in API performance testing and microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of shift-left performance testing and performance engineering practices.
Technical
Leadership & Collaboration
Mindset
Nice to Have
Skills Required
- Lead and own end-to-end performance engineering lifecycle
- Define performance testing strategy and approach
- Plan and execute large-scale load and performance tests
- Deliver actionable insights through robust reporting and analytics
- Strong technical expertise, critical thinking, and data-driven decision making
- Experience in performance scripting and automation
- Leverage modern AI/LLM tools to enhance automation, scripting, test design, and result analysis
Protolabs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Protolabs and has not been reviewed or approved by Protolabs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are broadly available and described as good to excellent. Additional protections like short- and long-term disability and life insurance bolster the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A starting PTO allotment plus paid holidays, along with added wellness and volunteer time, is emphasized, with some roles noting PTO growth over tenure. Paid caregiver leave appears in postings and supports flexibility for life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is offered, supporting long-term savings. This foundation is frequently cited alongside core financial benefits as a strong element of total rewards.
Protolabs Insights
What We Do
Protolabs is the world's fastest digital manufacturing source for rapid prototyping and on-demand production. The technology-enabled company produces custom parts and assemblies in as fast as 1 day with automated 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables accelerated time to market, reduces development and production costs, and minimizes risk throughout the product life cycle. 3D Printing Our 3D printing service offers a wide selection of materials and technologies to create prototypes and end-use parts with complex geometries and detailed features. With tight process controls, careful design reviews, and extensive quality monitoring, we ensure precise and repeatable 3D-printed parts, every time. CNC Machining We use 3- and 5-axis milling along with turning to machine parts from commercial-grade plastics and metals. Our online quoting system and automated manufacturing process enable us to ship parts within 24 hours, helping customers accelerate development and reduce time to market. Sheet Metal Fabrication Protolabs is an industry leader in quick-turn sheet metal parts for both prototyping and low-volume production. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables us to fabricate sheet metal parts in as fast as 5 days. Additionally, we can support our customers’ development efforts with component assemblies, several finish options, and screen printing. Injection Molding Our injection molding service offers two options—prototyping and on-demand manufacturing—which provide customers a tooling solution that aligns with their project’s requirements. It’s used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling, and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts in 15 days or less.
