O pozici
An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Senior Performance Test Engineer!!
Location: Prague, Czech Republic or Krakow, Poland
Job ID: 44107
As a Senior Performance Test Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our systems are fast, scalable, and rock-solid under pressure. This isn’t just about running tests—it’s about shaping the performance strategy that powers products used by thousands. You’ll collaborate with top-tier developers, architects, DevOps, and product teams to uncover performance risks early and engineer solutions that keep us ahead of the curve.
Your expertise will drive innovation as you analyze metrics, diagnose bottlenecks, and deliver actionable insights that make our systems better every day. You’ll also help evolve our testing frameworks and automation, setting new standards for efficiency and reliability. If you thrive on solving complex technical challenges and love working in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, this is your chance to lead the way.
Who are we?
HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.
We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees.
Identification Technologies (IDT):
IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services.
HID’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.
Co budeš dělat
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining performance testing frameworks and automated test suites for complex distributed systems.
- Leading performance analysis efforts, identifying system bottlenecks, conducting root-cause analysis, and partnering with engineering teams on remediation.
- Developing realistic performance test scenarios based on production usage patterns, business requirements, and architectural constraints.
- Generating high-quality performance reports with actionable recommendations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Establishing and enforcing performance standards, SLAs, and best practices across teams.
- Contributing to the design and enhancement of performance test frameworks, tools, and pipelines.
- Working with architects and engineers to define performance criteria, SLAs, and workload models.
- Participating in root-cause analysis for scalability and latency issues across distributed systems.
- Supporting integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and advocating for continuous performance validation.
- Assisting in preparing performance environments that mirror production conditions.
- Mentoring mid-level and junior engineers in using performance testing tools and interpreting results.
- Providing technical input for performance tuning related to application code, databases, APIs, infrastructure, and configurations.
Koho hledáme
- 5+ years of experience in performance testing or engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major performance testing tool (JMeter, Gatling, K6, Locust, LoadRunner, etc.).
- Solid programming or scripting skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API performance, databases, caching, and networking fundamentals.
- Proven ability to analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements.
- Experience testing high-traffic or mission-critical applications.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate technical findings clearly.
Benefity
- We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions — supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities.
- We encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.
- We value different perspectives and experiences.
- As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams.
