NFR Specialist- Senior Technical Lead

Key Responsibilities

Develop Non-Functional Tests strategy.Non-Functional Scenarios including redundancy, availability, chaos engineering scenarios.Test Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and architects to understand performance requirements, objectives, and constraints. Develop a comprehensive performance test strategy and plan, including scope, test scenarios, workload models, and success criteria.Performance Test Design: Define detailed performance test scenarios and scripts based on the application's architecture and user behaviours. Choose appropriate performance testing tools and methodologies to achieve accurate results.Test Environment Setup and Test Data Management.Performance Test Execution: Coordinate and conduct performance tests based on the defined scenarios and scripts. Monitor the test execution and collect performance metrics like response times, throughput, resource utilization, and system errors.Performance Analysis and Tuning.Reporting and Documentation, Test Monitoring.Test Automation: Where applicable, automate performance test scenarios to facilitate repeated testing and integration into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.Knowledge Sharing: Stay updated with the latest performance testing trends, tools, and best practices. Share knowledge and insights with the testing team to improve overall testing effectiveness.

Technical Skills (Must Have)

Proven experience in NFR testing and analysis for complex software systems.Familiarity with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or load Ninja, Web load etc.Develop Strategy for Nonfunctional requirements.Strong Experience in Automation of Non-functional requirements and end to end NFR Tests Journey.Setup CI/CD pipelines for NFR performance runs.Exposure to monitoring utilities like Grafana, Kibana, Victoria Metrics dashboards.Strong understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic AI concepts and their application in Non-Functional Testing and Performance Engineering.Ability to build or configure AI agents/workflows for NFR testing using platforms such as n8n, LangChain/LangGraph, or equivalent orchestration frameworks.Strong understanding of software performance metrics and factors affecting system performance.Conduct throughput testing, endurance testing, concurrent testing and stress testing of the applications as required.Execute break point tests to measure server threshold and endurance tests to determine the presence of memory leaks.Compare performance testing results with benchmark and check for high CPU utilization, memory leaks and other performance degradation factors.Strong Experience in other NFR Types-Availability, redundancy, scalability, supportability, reliability etc.Strong Exposure in Chaos Engineering.Experience with application profiling and performance tuning techniques.Knowledge of various database systems Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL etc and their impact on application performance.Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies related to performance optimization.Solid expertise in Linux and SQL DB (Oracle / MySQL)Understanding of AI-driven anomaly detection and intelligent performance analysis to identify response-time degradation, throughput bottlenecks, CPU/memory issues, memory leaks, DB bottlenecks, thread/connection-pool saturation, and infrastructure constraints.Ability to use AI for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) by correlating test results, logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure data, and historical performance.

Soft Skills

Good analytical skillsGood decision-making abilityGood Communication SkillsAbility to pay attention to minute details.Ability to work individually and in a team.Presentation skillsResponsivenessStrong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.Proactive and self-motivated, able to work independently and in a team environment.