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The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
We're looking for Senior Performance Test Engineer with skills in coding, quality, and testing to join our performance engineering team. As part of the test infrastructure team, you will help develop frameworks, tools, and tests to cover the full depth and breadth of Postman's NFR and scale. Your primary objective on the team would be to develop and drive effective, scalable automated performance tests and related infrastructure to ensure the performance and capabilities of the Postman platform.
Create and execute Performance test scripts for APIs, UIs and Native (Desktop) Applications
Generate periodic Performance reports and articulate the results to the stakeholders
Work closely with the partner teams in driving the fixes for the performance issues, also, fix the issues of generic nature yourself whenever required
Work closely with the stakeholders and provide active feedback & recommendations for better performance of the system
Must have knowledge and experience with application performance testing, including performance test tool utilisation, scripting, building and executing scenarios, collecting and analysing performance metrics
Create required test data and data loads for each performance test run
Be a performance expert in the Test Infrastructure team, who understands how the features should work in various loads and scale situations and the impact on the rest of the system
Interact with team members and other groups to troubleshoot and resolve quality defects and issues identified during the testing process and post-release of the product
Work with Product Management to benchmark and set performance targets for the systems under test
6+ years of experience working in the Software Performance Engineering/Testing
5+ years of working experience building performance testing frameworks and implementing performance/load and other non-functional tests
Extensive experience executing performance and other non-functional tests
Expert knowledge of scripting technologies such as JavaScript and Node.JS.
Proficient working knowledge of Frontend, Backend, cloud infrastructure, and databases.
Knowledge of performance bottlenecks and end-to-end performance measures (server response time, memory and CPU utilisation, throughput, latency, etc.).
Familiar with working in an Agile (scrum) software development team
Strong experience with bug tracking tools and procedures around logging and tracking bugs
Nice To Have:
Experience with containers is considered an asset
Knowledge or experience with open source technologies
At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
We offer competitive salaries and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you’re at.) Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements. Our frequent and fascinating virtual team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves, and we want you to be part of it.
This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.
