API Lead | Atlanta

Photon Interactive UK Ltd

Atlanta, GA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apache JMeter, Application Programming Interface (API), Benchmarking, Capacity Management, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, GitHub, Java, Jenkins, Mentoring, Microsoft Windows Azure, Performance Analysis, Performance Metrics, Performance Testing, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Methodology, Reporting Dashboards, Resource Utilization, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, SWAGGER OAS, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Service Level Agreement (SLA), Systems Analysis, Technical Leadership, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing
LOCATION
Atlanta, GA
POSTED
17 days ago

API Lead JD

  • Hands on experience in creating and configuring mock APIs using SoapUI.
  • Design and implement end to end performance testing solutions, including capacity planning, workload modeling, and observability dashboard setup.
  • Develop and maintain custom JMeter scripts for API performance testing with reusable and scalable framework design.
  • Perform advanced performance diagnostics including memory analysis, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, memory profiling, and CPU profiling.
  • Conduct root cause analysis of performance bottlenecks using Kibana, Kubernetes, and application monitoring tools.
  • Lead API automation testing initiatives using parameterization, dynamic assertions, correlation, and reporting mechanisms.
  • Integrate performance and automation scripts into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions).
  • Analyze system performance metrics including response time, throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
  • Define performance SLAs, benchmarking standards, and non functional requirements (NFRs).
  • Collaborate with Development, DevOps, and Architecture teams to identify and mitigate scalability risks.
  • Provide performance tuning recommendations at application, JVM, database, and infrastructure levels.
  • Review and validate API contracts (Swagger/OpenAPI) and ensure test coverage alignment.
  • Mentor QA engineers and lead technical reviews for API and performance testing practices.

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Photon Interactive UK Ltd