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Vonage is seeking a Lead Performance Tester (SDET) to define and lead performance engineering strategies for their cloud-native telecom platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance testing, AWS cloud services, and mentoring distributed teams.
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Job Summary
Define and lead the performance engineering strategy across high-availability, cloud-native telecom platforms.
Lead, train, and coordinate a distributed guild of SDETs across multiple feature teams, guiding them to build, maintain, and execute performance scripts.
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous performance validation and automated PR blocking for latency degradation.
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Vonage is seeking a Lead Performance Tester (SDET) to define and lead performance engineering strategies for their cloud-native telecom platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance testing, AWS cloud services, and mentoring distributed teams.
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Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Define performance engineering strategy
Lead distributed SDET guild
Develop scalable backend frameworks
Implement production traffic replay
Own performance, load, and resilience testing
Validate real-time communication systems
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD
Leverage observability tooling
Establish performance benchmarks and SLOs
Analyze and optimize performance
Nice-to-have
Chaos engineering practices
Shift-left practices
Evidence-based investment proposals
Key Requirements
Proven experience mentoring and coordinating testing efforts
Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
Proven expertise in performance testing tools (k6, JMeter, Gatling)
Hands-on experience with production traffic shadowing/replay tools
Deep experience testing distributed systems and message brokers
Solid backend programming and scripting skills (Python, Java, TypeScript)
Strong understanding of system design principles
Experience implementing performance testing within CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools