Lead QA Engineer

About Spotfire

Spotfire® is a visual data science platform that makes smart people smarter. It combines market-leading visual analytics, data science, and data wrangling to allow experts to analyze data at-rest, in-motion, and at-scale—solving problems that require human creativity and modern computing.

Enjoy a point-and-click user experience where engineers, scientists, and other experts can rapidly build sophisticated, interactive visual data science applications and deploy those to thousands of end-users—enhancing business-critical operations and daily decision-making. That’s working smarter, with Spotfire. 

Since Spotfire's start in 1991, the amount of data and the importance of self-service analytics has grown by leaps and bounds, but the goal of Spotfire has remained the same: to give users the ability to ask and answer questions about their data at the speed of thought.

Visit https://www.spotfire.com/about to learn more about Spotfire.
 

Job Description

A Performance Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring software applications and systems perform optimally under various conditions. This involves designing, developing, and executing performance tests to identify bottlenecks and analyze their impact on stability and scalability. By understanding both functional and non-functional requirements, and collaborating effectively with stakeholders, the Performance Test Engineer provides crucial recommendations for improvement, ultimately contributing to a seamless and efficient user experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify performance requirements, such as response times, throughput, and resource usage.

• Create comprehensive performance test plans detailing scope, objectives, methods, and timelines

• Design test cases to simulate various conditions, including high user load, stress, prolonged usage, and traffic spikes

• Employ performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, k6) to script and execute tests in a production-like environment, monitor system behavior, gather performance data, and set/compare with benchmarks

• Analyze performance results, identify bottlenecks, document findings, and collaborate with stakeholders (e.g., developers, architects, project managers) to resolve issues

• Recommend code optimizations, infrastructure changes, or configuration adjustments to improve performance

• Stay updated with performance testing tools, automate processes for efficiency, and promote performance considerations throughout the software development lifecycle

Required Experience/Skills

• 10+ years of software testing experience, preferably with a product-based company

• Proven experience in performance testing and tuning enterprise applications at both system and component levels using manual and automated methods

• Proficient in one or more performance testing languages, tools, or technology

• Strong background in server-side technologies, clients, and database systems

• Extensive experience in setting up test environments, including installation, configuration, debugging, and maintenance across various operating systems, databases, and cloud platforms

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of system operations beyond documentation

• Skilled in testing web services and APIs, with knowledge of Jenkins, pipelines, and XML being advantageous

• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc., is a plus

• A strong desire to learn new tools, products, and technologies

Education

• BE/ME/BTech/MTech in Computer Science, IT, or related disciplines from a reputed institute

Pay & Benefits Summary

• Competitive salary and annual bonus

• Health Insurance, Life, and Accidental Insurance

• Tax Saving benefits like the NPS (National Pension Scheme) and the Voluntary Provident Fund.

• Sick/casual leaves, public holidays, and paternal leave

• Education Assistance Program, Employee Discounts, Employee Referral Program, Patent Bonus, Well-being Programs

About Us:

Citrix and TIBCO recently merged to create Cloud Software Group, now one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value diverse lived experiences, passion for technology, and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process,  please contact us at (800) 424-8749 or email us at [email protected] for assistance.