Performance Test Engineer – LoadRunner
- Kitchener, ON, Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Work location
- Work Model: Hybrid – 2 days per week in office
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Performance Test Engineer – LoadRunner
Work Model: Hybrid – 2 days per week in office
Primary Skill
- LoadRunner
Role Description
We are seeking a Performance Test Engineer with strong hands-on experience in LoadRunner to design, execute, and analyze performance tests for enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have experience across different performance testing methodologies, protocols, performance analysis, and CI/CD integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze non-functional requirements and define performance testing strategies aligned with application objectives.
- Design, develop, and execute performance test scripts using LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, and Analysis).
- Create workload models and simulate real-world user load scenarios.
- Conduct Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance/Soak, Scalability, and Capacity testing.
- Develop performance test scripts for Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, TruClient, and other supported protocols.
- Execute performance tests and monitor application behavior under varying load conditions.
- Analyze test results and identify bottlenecks across application, database, middleware, and infrastructure layers.
- Collaborate with developers, DBAs, and infrastructure teams on performance tuning and optimization.
- Prepare performance test reports with findings, recommendations, and improvement plans.
- Implement performance test automation and integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Support performance testing activities within Agile development environments.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Performance Test Engineer at Astra North Infoteck will design and run load tests on enterprise applications, then analyze results to find bottlenecks and recommend fixes. They will also build test scripts, model realistic user traffic and add performance tests to automated pipelines.
Requirements
Candidates need strong hands-on LoadRunner experience and knowledge of performance testing methods, protocols and analysis. Experience with CI/CD integration and working in Agile teams is expected.
Skills
- LoadRunner
- VuGen
- LoadRunner Controller
- LoadRunner Analysis
- TruClient
- HTTP/HTML protocol scripting
- REST API testing
- SOAP API testing
- web services testing
- performance test scripting
- workload modelling
- load testing
- stress testing
- spike testing
- endurance/soak testing
- scalability testing
- capacity testing
- performance analysis
- bottleneck identification
- performance tuning
- CI/CD integration
- test automation
- non-functional requirements analysis
- performance reporting
- Agile methodology
Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- LoadRunner
- performance testing
- load testing
- stress testing
- spike testing
- endurance testing
- soak testing
- scalability testing
- capacity testing
- VuGen
- LoadRunner Controller
- LoadRunner Analysis
- TruClient
- REST API testing
- SOAP API testing
- web services testing
- CI/CD
- performance test automation
- workload modelling
- Agile
Tools
- LoadRunner
- VuGen
- LoadRunner Controller
- LoadRunner Analysis
- TruClient
Languages
- English