Senior SDET Performance Engineering (Pune)

Job Description Role Overview We are looking for a Senior SDET specializing in Performance Engineering in a cloud-native Azure setting. This role focuses on driving scalability, reliability, and performance validation across distributed microservices systems. The candidate will design automated performance frameworks, build simulators and mocks, define KPIs, and partner with engineering, architecture, and SRE teams to ensure production-grade resilience. Key Responsibilities - Design and implement end-to-end performance and load testing strategies for microservices-based systems - Build custom simulators, traffic generators, and mocks for complex system dependencies - Define, measure, and track performance KPIs (latency, throughput, error rate, saturation, scalability limits) - Develop fully automated performance test frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab) - Execute load, stress, spike, endurance, and chaos testing - Collaborate with architects, developers, product owners, and SRE teams to optimize system performance - Analyze bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers - Work closely with Azure services (AKS, compute, storage, networking) for performance tuning - Implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and APM tools - Optimize Redis caching, database queries (MariaDB, MySQL, etc), and messaging systems - Support resilience engineering and chaos testing (Chaos Monkey or equivalent) - Drive RCA for performance issues and production incidents - Contribute to capacity planning and scalability strategy .