مطلوب Lead Performance Engineer

Job Purpose At Emirates، we believe in connecting the world، to and through، our global hub in Dubai، and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’

Requirements & Qualifications

• Preferred skills Familiarity with resiliency testing and chaos engineering، including exposure to commercial or open-source tools used to assess system behavior under failure scenarios

• Preferred skills

Benefits & Conditions

• Salary & benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry، including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world

• Salary & benefits

• Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry، including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology

Being pioneers in aviation innovation، we're always at the forefront، pushing boundaries

We're on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry

Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as Lead Performance Engineer

Working within the Quality Engineering QE team as a Lead Performance Engineer LPE is responsible for ensuring the performance availability scalability and reliability of a suite of products within an agile release train

Collaborating with multiple stakeholders to develop a fit for purpose performance engineering and testing strategy that covers all aspects of the product including cross program dependencies The LPE drives a performance driven culture and enables the development community to test earlier and test faster thereby enabling faster time to market and built-in quality In this role you will: Design and execute complex test scenarios to ensure optimal functional/code coverage، and identify performance regressions or other anomalies

Establish performance baselines and identify key areas for improvements

Participate in all phases of the Performance Engineering lifecycle for the products within an agile release train

Review and critique the design and architecture of the solutions، and suggest options to improve performance and reliability

Collaborate with architects and product owners to ensure NFR backlogs are maintained for the products، while also ensuring that each features and epics have NFRs defined Work with IT and business stakeholders to design workload models

Conduct frequent reviews and updates of the workload models، thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the non-functional tests

Collaborate in investigating and resolving performance and/or availability issues to reduce defect leakages to production

Establish appropriate performance gates within the Continuous Integration or Continuous deployment pipelines

Implement fit for purpose performance testing frameworks for the products

Enable the developers and testers to use these frameworks، thereby increasing the autonomy within feature teams

Provide timely feedback to the Senior Principal Performance Engineer to enhance and maintain the performance testing frameworks، so as to improve efficiency and productivity

Conduct thorough performance testing result analysis، through statistical analysis of data from multiple sources

Qualification To be considered for this role، you must meet the below

8+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering، including performance testing، profiling، and tuning of highly available and scalable mission-critical applications. 3+ years of experience leading performance engineering practices for a suite of products، including web، mobile، and desktop applications

Proven expertise in performance tuning and optimization of applications and systems، including identifying bottlenecks and enhancing overall efficiency

Proficient with application profiling tools like YourKit and JProfiler Extensive experience with commercial and open-source load testing tools such as LoadRunner، Gatling، JMeter، etc.، as well as client-side performance analysis tools like Sitespeed.io، WebPageTest، and Lighthouse

Strong ability to review application architecture and design principles، with a focus on recommending improvements to enhance system performance

Advanced knowledge of software architecture concepts، including current technology trends and best practices

Proficient in monitoring and observability solutions، with a solid understanding of APM، infrastructure monitoring، Open Telemetry، logging، and tracing

Skilled in building realistic and data-driven workload models for performance testing by analyzing application logs، APM data، system metrics، and user behavior patterns

Proficient in deriving concurrency levels، transaction mix، and traffic distribution based on production telemetry and historical usage data

Comfortable working across cloud platforms (AWS، Azure، GCP)، on-premises، or hybrid environments، with demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes، containerization، and orchestration tools

In-depth understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases، with the ability to diagnose and resolve database performance issues

Familiar with DevOps practices and experienced in setting up performance gates within CI/CD pipelines

Experience with capacity planning and management practices، such as forecasting resource

and analyzing system growth trends

Knowledge of service virtualization and mocking tools، both commercial and open-source، for simulating external dependencies in test environments

Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform، Ansible، or AWS CloudFormation، supporting automated infrastructure provisioning

Familiarity with Operational ance Testing (OAT)، encompassing key non-functional testing areas such as observability، infrastructure and environment readiness، and more

Join our Quality Engineering team، where quality lies at the heart of our brand

We value diverse perspectives، backgrounds، and ways of thinking، and we are building a talented team of quality engineers

Our team ensures software quality across the entire customer journey، from ticket booking to the seamless delivery of ancillary services and the efficient operation of our airplanes

If you are passionate about shaping the future of quality engineering and contributing to the renowned success of Emirates، we invite you to apply and help to shape the future of Emirates Group

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Job Purpose

At Emirates، we believe in connecting the world، to and through، our global hub in Dubai، and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’.

Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as Lead Performance Engineer.

Working within the Quality Engineering QE team as a Lead Performance Engineer LPE is responsible for ensuring the performance availability scalability and reliability of a suite of products within an agile release train.

Collaborating with multiple stakeholders to develop a fit for purpose performance engineering and testing strategy that covers all aspects of the product including cross program dependencies

The LPE drives a performance driven culture and enables the development community to test earlier and test faster thereby enabling faster time to market and built-in quality

In this role you will

Design and execute complex test scenarios to ensure optimal functional/code coverage، and identify performance regressions or other anomalies

Establish performance baselines and identify key areas for improvements.

Participate in all phases of the Performance Engineering lifecycle for the products within an agile release train.

Review and critique the design and architecture of the solutions، and suggest options to improve performance and reliability.

Collaborate with architects and product owners to ensure NFR backlogs are maintained for the products، while also ensuring that each features and epics have NFRs defined

Work with IT and business stakeholders to design workload models

Conduct frequent reviews and updates of the workload models، thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the non-functional tests.

Collaborate in investigating and resolving performance and/or availability issues to reduce defect leakages to production.

Establish appropriate performance gates within the Continuous Integration or Continuous deployment pipelines.

Enable the developers and testers to use these frameworks، thereby increasing the autonomy within feature teams.

Provide timely feedback to the Senior Principal Performance Engineer to enhance and maintain the performance testing frameworks، so as to improve efficiency and productivity.

Conduct thorough performance testing result analysis، through statistical analysis of data from multiple sources.

Qualification

To be considered for this role، you must meet the below

8+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering، including performance testing، profiling، and tuning of highly available and scalable mission-critical applications.

3+ years of experience leading performance engineering practices for a suite of products، including web، mobile، and desktop applications.

Proficient with application profiling tools like YourKit and JProfiler

Extensive experience with commercial and open-source load testing tools such as LoadRunner، Gatling، JMeter، etc.، as well as client-side performance analysis tools like Sitespeed.io، WebPageTest، and Lighthouse.

Advanced knowledge of software architecture concepts، including current technology trends and best practices.

Proficient in monitoring and observability solutions، with a solid understanding of APM، infrastructure monitoring، Open Telemetry، logging، and tracing.

Proficient in deriving concurrency levels، transaction mix، and traffic distribution based on production telemetry and historical usage data.

Comfortable working across cloud platforms (AWS، Azure، GCP)، on-premises، or hybrid environments، with demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes، containerization، and orchestration tools.

In-depth understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases، with the ability to diagnose and resolve database performance issues.

Familiar with DevOps practices and experienced in setting up performance gates within CI/CD pipelines.

Familiarity with resiliency testing and chaos engineering، including exposure to commercial or open-source tools used to assess system behavior under failure scenarios.

and analyzing system growth trends.

Knowledge of service virtualization and mocking tools، both commercial and open-source، for simulating external dependencies in test environments.

Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform، Ansible، or AWS CloudFormation، supporting automated infrastructure provisioning.

Familiarity with Operational ance Testing (OAT)، encompassing key non-functional testing areas such as observability، infrastructure and environment readiness، and more.

If you are passionate about shaping the future of quality engineering and contributing to the renowned success of Emirates، we invite you to apply and help to shape the future of Emirates Group.