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Senior Performance Test Analyst
Job Description: • Performance Strategy & Governance • Define performance engineering roadmap, NFRs, and capacity planning aligned with Infosys delivery frameworks. • Act as Performance SME during architecture reviews, release go/no-go decisions, and production RCA. • Drive performance KPIs, SLIs/SLOs, and golden signals for critical services. • Performance Testing & Automation • Design and execute load, stress, spike, endurance, and soak tests using Apache JMeter. • Develop reusable test frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle). • Implement parameterization, correlation, custom samplers, and distributed load generation. • Application & JVM Optimization • Hands-on tuning for Java/Spring Boot microservices deployed on Kubernetes/Docker. • Expertise in JVM internals (GC algorithms, heap, thread scheduling) and tools like JFR, JMC, VisualVM. • Analyze thread contention, GC pauses, memory leaks, CPU hotspots; recommend code-level optimizations. • Middleware & API Performance • Optimize Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly for thread pools, connection pools, async processing. • Govern RESTful API performance, OpenAPI contracts, and Apigee API Gateway policies for scalability and security. • Database Performance Engineering • Tune Oracle/PostgreSQL queries, execution plans, indexing strategies, and connection pooling. • Correlate DB metrics with application and infrastructure telemetry. • Cloud & Container Performance • Drive Kubernetes resource sizing, pod scheduling, and JVM tuning inside containers • Debug using kubectl, logs, metrics; optimize deployments for VMware-based environments