Performance Test Engineer (JMeter + Dynatrace)

Role Overview AlgoShack is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer with strong expertise in Non-Functional Testing, JMeter, and Dynatrace APM. The role involves performance validation of high-volume, transaction-intensive systems, particularly in Banking and Financial Services environments. Required Skills & Expertise • Strong experience in Performance Testing and Non-Functional Testing • Hands-on experience designing and executing Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance, and Volume Testing • Strong experience in JMeter for test design, scripting, execution, workload modelling, and result analysis • Experience testing Web, API, and Microservices-based applications • Hands-on experience testing high-volume APIs, backend services, and transaction-intensive systems • Strong exposure to Banking / Financial Services domain applications and critical workflows • Experience validating payments, transactions, account services, loans, and core banking operations • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace APM for monitoring and performance analysis • Experience with real-time monitoring, end-to-end transaction tracing, and bottleneck identification • Knowledge of Dynatrace Service Flow, Distributed Tracing, dashboards, and dependency analysis • Understanding of Dynatrace metrics, logs, traces, events, and infrastructure monitoring • Ability to correlate performance test results with APM insights for root cause analysis • Strong knowledge of performance issues across Application, API, Database, JVM, CPU, Memory, and Threads Responsibilities • Design and execute end-to-end performance testing strategy • Develop and maintain JMeter scripts and workload models • Execute performance tests across environments and monitor using Dynatrace • Analyze response time, throughput, failure rates, and system behavior under load • Identify performance bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations • Prepare performance analysis reports, SLA validation reports, and test summary reports • Conduct bottleneck analysis across application and infrastructure layers • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to resolve issues • Support performance tuning cycles and release readiness validation