Senior QA Engineer (Performance Testing)

• We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer (Performance Testing) to join Procore’s Product & Technology QA Engineering Team in India. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, executing, and scaling performance and load tests for critical systems to ensure our platform delivers reliable and high-performing experiences to millions of users worldwide.
• You should be detail-oriented, analytical, and self-driven, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams across various domains and locations. This role will focus on performance testing of web applications, APIs, and backend services, and will play a key part in performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction, and our Product & Technology team is the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group encompassing engineering, product, design, data, and business systems.

This position reports into the QA Manager and will be based in our Bengaluru offices. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

What You’ll Do:

• •Design and develop robust performance test plans and strategies for backend services, APIs, and web applications.
• •Execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity tests to validate system performance.
• •Analyze test results, identify bottlenecks, and work closely with development and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues.
• •Establish performance benchmarks and monitor performance regressions across releases.
• •Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable shift-left performance validation.
• •Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, DevOps, product managers, and business stakeholders to define non-functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
• •Contribute to performance optimization and tuning initiatives, and support root cause analysis for production performance incidents.

What We’re Looking For:

• •5+ years of experience in performance engineering or software quality assurance with a strong focus on performance testing.
• •Strong experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or k6.
• •Solid understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications (preferably AWS or GCP).
• •Strong analytical and debugging skills to diagnose performance issues at different layers (app, database, network).
• •Experience with APM tools like New Relic, Datadog, or Grafana for monitoring and profiling.
• •Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Groovy to automate test workflows.
• •Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar systems.
• •Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architecture is a plus.
• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences.