QA Performance Engineer (YouTrack)

About the Position

We are looking for a QA Performance Engineer (YouTrack) to join our team in Munich, Germany or Paphos, Cyprus. If you have a passion for ensuring top-tier performance and reliability, and you treat performance testing as a craft rather than a checklist, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Participate in performance testing and analysis using both manual and automated approaches.
• Write new automated performance tests and maintain the existing test suite.
• Reproduce complex performance bugs and issues reported by users.
• Configure performance test invocations as an integrated part of our continuous integration (CI) cycles.
• Collaborate on functionality planning, incident investigation, and product releases.

Requirements

• Proven experience running and analyzing both manual and automated performance tests.
• Solid understanding of HTTP and TCP/IP protocols.
• Proficiency with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
• Experience testing web applications manually and via automation frameworks like Selenium or Playwright.
• Familiarity with teamwork tools, including issue trackers, version control systems, and CI/CD servers.
• Comfort working in command-line environments using tools like Bash, grep, SSH, and curl.
• Strong spoken and written English language skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, REST API testing, or platform-specific performance monitoring (top, htop, perfmon, etc.).

We Offer

• Strong base salary.
• Flexible work location.
• Remote work options.
• Extra time off.
• Medical insurance allowance.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Relocation support.
• Language classes.
• Fuel your day with a hot meal or lunch allowance.
• Mental health support.
• Sports benefit.
• Internal events.

About the Company

We create intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. More than 15 million users, over 300,000 companies, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 rely on our products to solve real, complex problems. Our mission is simple: make development teams more productive and AI adoptable at scale.

We are an equal opportunity employer

We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.

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