One Performance Test Engineer, assigned to your product and fully managed.

We assign a Performance Test Engineer to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who answers for the work, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Performance Test Engineer; junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal, and how the monthly fee is built explains the arithmetic.

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One mid-level Performance Test Engineer, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ››

  • Performance test engineer From USD 3,300 per month
  • Service

    We manage and develop the team

    • A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery
    • A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
    • Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
    • A Talent Success Manager for every specialist
  • HR

    We are the employer

    • Recruitment and technical assessment
    • Employment contracts
    • Salary and payroll
    • Tax and social security
  • Facilitation

    We provide the workplace

    • A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
    • A Workplace Experience Manager on site
    • Team events through the year
    • IT support
  • Equipment

    We supply the tools

    • Laptop and hardware
    • Software licences
    • LinkedIn Learning access
    • Device security and management

What a Performance Test Engineer does on a dedicated QA and testing team.

They work with your own developers and infrastructure team, using your analytics to model traffic and your monitoring to show where time goes under load.

Performance Test Engineer skills and technologies

  • Load, stress, spike and endurance testing modelled on realistic traffic rather than round numbers.

  • Profiling and bottleneck analysis across application, database and infrastructure layers.

  • Establishing performance baselines so CI catches a regression before production does.

  • Capacity modelling ahead of a known traffic event, so infrastructure is sized before the day arrives.

  • Setting performance budgets in CI so a slow regression fails a build.

Performance Test Engineer seniority levels.

Mid-level to senior. Performance work often takes part of a specialist's week within your QA team, stepping up around launches and migrations. Seniority is one of the inputs into how the monthly fee is built.

When your team needs a Performance Test Engineer.

Usually brought in ahead of a major launch or migration, then kept on in your QA team to run performance baselines. Performance test engineers join as part of a dedicated QA and testing team at Azendo. It is usually a targeted addition for companies that hire a dedicated development team ahead of a launch, a migration or a seasonal peak.

What we look for in a dedicated Performance Test Engineer.

We look for engineers who can build a load model from your analytics and read a flame graph as well as a load test report. They should explain a bottleneck to your own developers with the evidence that proves it.

A remote Performance Test Engineer's first three months on your team.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2Studying your traffic patterns and architecture, and running a baseline load test.
  2. Weeks 3 to 6Finding the first bottlenecks across application, database and infrastructure.
  3. Months 2 to 3Adding performance budgets to CI and preparing for your next launch or migration.
From USD 3,300
Per month for a mid-level performance test engineer, fully managed
160 h
Typical monthly capacity for this role
Fixed
The same fee every month
4 to 6 weeks
From signing to our specialist starting
Monthly
Add or reduce hours at each cycle

Questions about adding a Performance Test Engineer to your team.

When should we run performance testing?

Before a launch, before a migration and before any expected traffic peak, and then as a baseline in your pipeline, so slowdowns show up in the build that caused them. Running tests early is far cheaper than finding the limit on launch day, when every minute of slowness costs customers.

What if we don't know our expected traffic?

We model it from your analytics, your growth plans and comparable launches, and agree a target together. The tests then measure something that matters, such as response time at twice your current peak. As real traffic arrives, the model is updated and the tests follow it.

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