About Nagarro:

Nagarro is a Digital Product Engineering company growing rapidly, with over 18,000 professionals across 38 countries. The organization specializes in building products, services, and experiences that inspire and delight customers across various devices and digital platforms. Nagarro promotes a dynamic, non-hierarchical work culture and is constantly looking for talented individuals to join its expanding team.

Role Overview:

As an Associate Staff Engineer, QA Performance, you will be responsible for driving performance and functional quality assurance activities, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality deliverables for complex digital solutions. This role demands a solid technical foundation, exceptional problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across global teams.

Responsibilities:

• Understand functional and non-functional requirements and the business context of applications under development.
• Interact with clients to define the scope of testing, expectations, acceptance criteria, and availability of test data and environments.
• Work closely with product owners to define and refine acceptance criteria.
• Prepare test plans and strategies.
• Estimate test efforts, create schedules, assign tasks, and identify constraints and dependencies.
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve business and technical risks, analyze multiple alternatives, and determine potential problem causes.
• Design and develop automated testing frameworks, adhering to project-specific design and coding guidelines.
• Establish best practices for test automation.
• Prepare test reports summarizing the outcomes of testing phases, and recommend whether applications are in a shippable state.
• Communicate measurable quality metrics, highlighting problem areas and proposing solutions.
• Participate in retrospective meetings to identify root causes of quality issues and recommend process improvements.
• Conduct application demos for internal and external stakeholders.
• Review all testing artifacts prepared by the team and ensure defects found during reviews are tracked to closure.
• Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to triage and prioritize defects for resolution.
• Provide constructive feedback to team members and set clear expectations.

Key Technical Skills:

Performance Testing, Functional QA, JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, SQL, JSON, API testing, Selenium, REST-assured, BlazeMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, LoadUI, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud-based load testing, Test Planning, Script Creation, Load Generation, Result Analysis, UI Testing, Regression Testing

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Performance Testing and Functional QA.
• Strong hands-on expertise in tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or NeoLoad.
• Proficiency in SQL and JSON, with a solid understanding of API communication patterns.
• Experience with test case authoring, planning, reporting, and reviewing.
• Familiarity with automation tools for API/UI testing, such as Selenium and REST-assured.
• Experience with performance monitoring and analysis tools like BlazeMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, New Relic, or AppDynamics.
• Knowledge of defect management tools and performance tools like LoadUI.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, and integrating performance tests into delivery workflows.
• Experience with cloud-based load testing solutions.
• Strong skills in test planning, script creation, load generation, and result analysis.
• Solid experience in API testing, UI testing, and regression coverage.
• Deep understanding of key performance indicators (KPIs) such as response time, latency, error rate, and throughput.
• Excellent backend validation skills, with good knowledge of SQL.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.