SDET III - Performance Testing

As an SDET III at HighLevel, your primary responsibilities will include implementing performance, reliability, and scalability testing strategies, capturing and analyzing performance metrics, collaborating with development teams, and automating performance tests. You will play a crucial role in enhancing our cloud-based platform's efficiency while ensuring high availability and reliability of our applications.

HighLevel seeks candidates with 5-6 years of hands-on experience in performance testing, along with expertise in tools such as Locust, Gatling, and k6. Candidates should also have a strong background in cloud platforms, scripting languages, and CI/CD pipelines to effectively contribute to the performance testing environment.

At HighLevel, the work culture is vibrant and inclusive, with a focus on creativity, collaboration, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of a diverse team of around 1200 employees across the globe, you'll enjoy a supportive atmosphere that encourages professional growth and interaction among talented individuals.

An SDET III at HighLevel should be proficient with performance testing tools like Locust and Gatling, as well as monitoring tools such as New Relic or Prometheus. Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, as well as experience in optimizing API performance and frontend performance, is also essential in this role.

In this role, an SDET III at HighLevel will work on exciting projects that involve optimizing the performance of our sophisticated marketing and sales platform. This includes developing test strategies based on actual customer behavior and conducting thorough root cause analyses of performance issues for improvement.

When answering this question, emphasize your familiarity with specific tools like Locust or Gatling, providing examples of how you've used these tools in past projects to identify performance bottlenecks and improve application responsiveness.

Here, it's essential to describe your methodical approach to capture metrics, including the tools you use, the key performance indicators (KPIs) you focus on, and how you communicate your findings to development teams for further action.

Your response should include a step-by-step process, mentioning tools for monitoring performance and logs, how you'd identify root causes, and the collaborative efforts needed with DevOps or development teams to solve the issue.

Provide insight into how you've integrated performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, discussing specific tools and configurations you've implemented to ensure a seamless development and deployment process.

Use this opportunity to showcase your problem-solving skills by recounting a real-life scenario where you faced significant challenges, how you overcame them, and the impact your efforts had on the project outcomes.

Discuss specific strategies you employ for load testing, including the creation of realistic user scenarios, tools you prefer for load generation, and how you assess the results to ensure benchmarks are met.

Highlight your strategies for continuous learning, such as following blogs, attending webinars, engaging with communities, or experimenting with new tools and techniques to enhance your skill set.

You should describe your proficiency in relevant scripting languages like Python or JavaScript, detailing examples of test scripts you've written and how they improved testing efficiency or coverage.

Focus on your organizational skills in this answer, discussing how you assess risks, evaluate critical testing areas based on customer usage patterns, and collaborate with team members to ensure efficient task execution.

Share your insights on the critical aspects of performance testing, such as user experience, system scalability, and product reliability, and explain how these factors align with delivering high-quality software.