Performance Test Lead
About the role
The Performance Test Lead (Performance Test Manager) is responsible for defining and owning the enterprise-wide performance engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with business SLAs, SLOs, and architectural direction. The role involves embedding performance considerations into the software development lifecycle, integrating automated performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, and leading the use of modern tools such as k6, Datadog, and WebpageTest. The position requires leading performance validation for cloud-native and distributed systems, establishing observability standards, and driving root cause analysis. The successful candidate will lead and mentor a performance engineering team, foster a culture of excellence, and deliver executive-ready dashboards and reports. The role is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with a requirement to adjust to UK working hours if needed.
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
Candidates must be willing to work Sri Lankan hours and adjust to UK working hours if required. The role is based at Havelock City, Colombo 06. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is desirable but not mandatory.
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