Jobs → Engineering → Lead Performance Engineer

About the Role We are seeking a Lead Performance Engineer to join our team, responsible for end-to-end performance engineering for IFS Cloud Work Order business processes. This role will serve as the primary customer-facing performance testing contact and provide technical leadership. Key Responsibilities • Define performance test strategy, scope, NFRs, acceptance criteria, workload models, entry/exit criteria, risks, and quality gates • Lead baseline, load, peak-load, scalability, stress, and endurance/soak testing under production-representative conditions • Translate business volumes and production usage patterns into realistic concurrency, transaction mix, throughput, response-time, and workload models • Provide hands-on technical leadership using OpenText LoadRunner / Professional Performance Engineering and Apache JMeter • Review scripts, parameterization, correlation, test data, workload configuration, and API/service-level performance scenarios • Analyze application, integration, database, and infrastructure metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and scalability constraints • Coordinate closely with customer application, architecture, infrastructure, database, integration, and offshore performance engineering teams • Lead performance status, risk, dependency, defect-triage, results-analysis, and optimization discussions with customer stakeholders • Prepare executive-level performance reports and provide evidence-based NFR validation, release-readiness, and Go/No-Go recommendations Requirements • 8+ years in performance testing/engineering with strong enterprise performance-test leadership • Hands-on LoadRunner and JMeter expertise • Experience with ERP/cloud platforms, preferably IFS Cloud/IFS Applications • Experience with performance testing of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, web services, and enterprise integrations • Experience with observability/APM tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor, or Splunk • Strong customer-facing communication, stakeholder management, analytical troubleshooting, executive reporting, and onshore/offshore team leadership skills