Virtusa Corporation

Lead Software Engineer

Virtusa Corporation$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of overall experience with 5+ years in performance testing.
  • Strong scripting skills in JMeter, Groovy, and/or JavaScript.
  • Proven ability in workload modeling and realistic test design.
  • Experience in analyzing production logs and traffic patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Datadog and AppDynamics.
  • Understanding of AWS cloud services and container management.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline integration and API testing.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute performance test scripts using JMeter.
  • Design and implement realistic workload models and test scenarios.
  • Analyze production log and traffic data to enhance test accuracy.
  • Monitor application performance and identify bottlenecks through observability tools.
  • Collaborate with DevOps to analyze container-level performance issues.
  • Troubleshoot test scripts and diagnose failures during test execution.
  • Validate environment readiness and test data preparedness.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge performance testing tools.
  • Collaborative environment with access to DevOps and cloud expertise.
  • Potential for professional growth within a specialized performance testing team.
  • Hands-on experience with modern cloud and container technologies.
Full Job Description
Preferred Tools/Technologies

- JMeter

- Groovy / JavaScript

- Datadog

- AppDynamics

- Kibana / Elasticsearch

- AWS monitoring

- Docker / Kubernetes / ECS / EKS

- CI/CD pipeline integration

- Git / Jenkins

- API testing tools

- SQL/log analysis

8+ years Over all Experience with 5+ Years of Experience in Performance Testing

1. Performance Test Scripting

- Strong experience with JMeter scripting.

- Ability to write/debug custom scripts using Groovy and/or JavaScript.

- Experience with correlation, parameterization, assertions, timers, controllers, reusable functions, and custom logic.

- Ability to troubleshoot script failures, dynamic values, authentication, cookies, headers, and session handling.

2. Workload Modeling and Test Design

- Ability to analyze business flows and design realistic workload models.

- Experience designing load, stress, endurance, spike, and scalability tests.

- Ability to calculate user load, TPS/TPM, pacing, think time, ramp-up, and transaction mix based on production usage.

- Experience validating test data readiness and environment readiness.

3. Production Log and Traffic Analysis

- Ability to analyze production logs and traffic patterns to identify peak usage, transaction volume,

error trends, and response-time behavior.

- Experience using production metrics to create accurate performance test scenarios.

- Ability to compare production behavior with test environment results.

4. Monitoring and Observability

- Hands-on experience with Datadog, AppDynamics, and Kibana.

- Ability to monitor application, API, JVM/.NET, IIS, database, container, and infrastructure metrics.

- Experience identifying bottlenecks related to CPU, memory, GC, thread pools, connection pools,

database queries, downstream services, cache, and network latency.

- Ability to correlate JMeter results with monitoring tool metrics.

5. AWS / Cloud / Container Monitoring

- Experience monitoring applications hosted on AWS cloud platforms.

- Understanding of containers, Kubernetes/ECS/EKS, pods, services, nodes, CPU/memory limits,

autoscaling, and cloud infrastructure behavior.

- Ability to analyze container-level performance issues and work with DevOps teams.

About Virtusa Corporation

Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of digital business strategy, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) services and solutions. The company helps its clients transform their businesses through innovative technology solutions that enable them to improve customer engagement, increase operational efficiency, and drive revenue growth. Virtusa Corporation was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts. The company has over 20,000 employees and operates in over 30 countries around the world. Virtusa Corporation is committed to sustainability and has received numerous awards for its environmental and social responsibility initiatives.
Learn more about Virtusa Corporation
Size
22,883 employees
Market Cap
$1.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$44.6 million
Founded
1996
5 Year Trend
+22.3%
Revenue
$1.2 billion
NASDAQ

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