Lead Software Development Engineer in Test - Performance Testing
HighLevel, India
The role
HighLevel is looking for a Lead SDET with 8+ years of experience to play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our products. We are seeking engineers who thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoy problem-solving, and stay updated with the latest models and solutions. This is a great opportunity to work on cutting-edge performance testing strategies and contribute to the success of our products.
What you will do
- Define the performance strategy and roadmap, including SLIs, SLOs, and baselines for critical services, prioritized by customer impact and risk
- Build and evolve a shared performance testing framework and production-like environments (Kubernetes, cloud, test data) that product-team SDETs adopt
- Model workloads from production traffic and customer behavior, run load, stress, soak, and spike tests, and lead capacity planning ahead of peak events
- Integrate performance checks into CI/CD with agreed thresholds, and publish trend reports that engineering leaders use for release decisions