About the Role

We are looking for a Performance Testing Engineer with a strong foundation in performance engineering and a structured, analytical approach to problem solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about ensuring scalability, reliability, and responsiveness of large-scale systems and has hands-on experience in designing and executing performance, load, and stress tests. Exposure to automation, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering practices is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Testing and Engineering

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests for applications and services.
• Analyze performance test results to identify bottlenecks, capacity limits, and scalability issues.
• Work closely with development and architecture teams to recommend performance optimizations at code, configuration, and infrastructure levels.
• Establish performance benchmarks, SLAs, and acceptance criteria for systems.

Test Design and Automation

• Develop reusable performance test scripts using industry standard tools and frameworks.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation.
• Ensure test data, environments, and monitoring setups accurately reflect production-like scenarios.

Collaboration and Design Thinking

• Apply user and business workload modeling to design realistic performance test scenarios.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to align performance goals with business needs.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews to proactively identify performance risks.

DevOps and Reliability (Plus)

• Support capacity planning and production readiness activities.
• Contribute to monitoring, observability, and performance tuning in lower and higher environments.
• Assist in incident analysis related to performance and scalability issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience in performance testing tools and frameworks such as K6, JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or similar.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Java, Python, or Groovy.
• Solid understanding of performance engineering concepts including throughput, latency, concurrency, and resource utilization.
• Experience testing microservices architectures and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git and agile development practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Mindset & Approach

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a performance-first mindset.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and influence performance best practices.
• Passion for continuous learning, system optimization, and engineering excellence.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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