Performance Test Manager
About the role
Intervest is seeking a Performance Test Manager to lead and evolve its performance engineering capability, focusing on embedding performance as a core engineering discipline across the software development lifecycle. The role involves defining strategy, building scalable frameworks, integrating performance into CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging modern tools such as k6, WebpageTest, and Datadog to ensure system resilience, scalability, and observability. The manager will collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, DevOps, and product teams to drive a performance-focused culture, lead a high-performing team, and continuously improve methodologies and tooling. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software quality and performance engineering, technical expertise in relevant tools and cloud environments, and strong leadership and communication skills. Intervest is a growing technology and services provider based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, serving the Staysure Group and affiliated brands.
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with strong specialization in performance engineering.
- 5+ years leading performance or non-functional testing teams in complex, distributed systems environments.
- Proven experience transforming traditional performance testing practices into modern engineering-led capabilities.
- Deep hands-on experience with k6 for performance scripting and automation.
- Strong expertise with Datadog (APM, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) for performance analysis.
- Experience with WebpageTest and front-end performance optimization techniques.
- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience performance testing in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
- Solid understanding of scalability patterns, caching strategies, database performance tuning, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency in JavaScript (k6), Python, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence architectural decisions.
- Ability to translate technical findings into business risk language.
- Excellent communication and executive reporting skills.
Nice to have
- Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is desirable.
Technologies
- AWS
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- Cloud Native
- CloudFormation
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Docker
- Event-Driven Architecture
- GCP
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- Infrastructure as Code
- JavaScript
- Jenkins
- k6
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Observability
- Performance Testing
- Python
- SDLC
- Terraform
Highlights
The position is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Intervest is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. For more information about the company culture and to apply, candidates are encouraged to visit the Intervest website and careers page.
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