Performance Test Engineer - LATAM-English… at DaCodes · Uruguay

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We are looking for a Performance Test Engineer who will join a performance engineering team supporting American Eagle, a leading global retail brand. In this role, you will design and execute performance, load, stress, and stability tests, partner closely with development teams to validate system behavior under production-like conditions, and drive continuous improvement across the application’s performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Partner with development teams to design accurate performance test models and production-like load scenarios.

• Execute and analyze load, stress, and stability tests to validate system performance and identify bottlenecks.

• Collaborate with developers and engineers to troubleshoot issues, support defect resolution, and verify performance fixes.

• Provide technical guidance to improve application performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.

• Perform root cause analysis for performance issues and recommend corrective and preventive actions.

• Own the performance engineering lifecycle, define key metrics, and drive continuous performance improvements.

• Recommend improvements to performance testing processes, tools, and execution practices at American Eagle.

• 5+ years of experience with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Cloud, JMeter, BlazeMeter, NeoLoad, or equivalent platforms.

• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering tools and practices, including Chaos Monkey, Chaos Mesh, or similar solutions.

• Strong understanding of Java and Spring Boot application performance tuning, including thread dump and heap analysis.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or similar technologies.

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

• Experience creating dashboards and monitoring application performance using Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, or equivalent tools.

• Ability to automate performance engineering tasks, including shift-left testing and report generation, using AI-assisted workflows beyond basic prompting.

• Practical experience using MCP and integrating AI capabilities through CLI tools or VS Code.

• Strong scripting skills in C, C++, Java, or JavaScript.

• Experience automating CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, Bamboo, Git, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Experience with service virtualization tools such as BlazeMeter, OpenText Service Virtualization, or equivalent platforms.

• Ability to write complex SQL and NoSQL queries for data extraction and analysis.

• Advanced English

Nice to Have

• Retail industry experience.

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