Are you an experienced Performance Engineer looking to work on enterprise-scale applications and challenging performance engineering problems? Mphasis is hiring Performance Engineers with 5–7 years of experience, making this an excellent opportunity for professionals with strong expertise in performance testing, JMeter, LoadRunner, performance analysis and application monitoring.
📍 Location: Hybrid – 4 days Work From Office
💼 Experience: 5–7 Years
⏳ Notice Period: Candidates who can join within 30–45 days are preferred
🧪 Role: Performance Engineer
🏢 About Mphasis
Mphasis is an AI-led, platform-driven technology company that helps global enterprises modernize their technology, adopt AI and scale their operations. The company has more than 31,000 employees across 21 countries and serves major global customers across industries including BFSI, Hi-Tech, Retail, Logistics and Travel.
Mphasis places strong emphasis on engineering, modernization, cloud, data, cybersecurity and next-generation technology. Its current technology direction also includes AI-powered platforms and enterprise transformation.
For a Performance Engineer, this environment can provide exposure to large-scale enterprise applications where performance, scalability and reliability are critical.
🌟 Why Is This Role Good for Experienced Professionals?
Performance engineering becomes increasingly valuable as applications handle larger transaction volumes, distributed architectures and demanding SLAs.
This position can help professionals strengthen their expertise in:
✅ Load and stress testing
✅ Performance test planning
✅ JMeter and LoadRunner
✅ Workload modelling
✅ Bottleneck identification
✅ Response-time analysis
✅ Throughput and concurrency analysis
✅ Application monitoring
✅ Database performance analysis
✅ Infrastructure monitoring
✅ Performance tuning recommendations
The role can also help you progress toward positions such as Senior Performance Engineer, Performance Test Lead, Performance Architect or Non-Functional Testing Lead.
🧑💻 Skills You Should Have
The JD specifically emphasizes Performance Testing/Engineering, JMeter, LoadRunner, performance analysis and monitoring tools.
Strong candidates should additionally understand:
🔹 Load, stress, endurance and spike testing
🔹 Workload modelling and realistic user journeys
🔹 Correlation and parameterization
🔹 Thread groups and controllers in JMeter
🔹 LoadRunner scripting and analysis
🔹 TPS/throughput, response time and concurrency
🔹 CPU, memory, disk and network monitoring
🔹 Database performance indicators
🔹 Garbage collection and JVM basics
🔹 HTTP/HTTPS and REST API performance
🔹 Performance bottleneck identification
🔹 SLA/SLO interpretation
🔹 Linux monitoring and basic shell commands
🔹 SQL and database troubleshooting
🔹 CI/CD-based performance testing
Understanding APM and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana or similar tools can also strengthen your profile.
🎯 Preparation Tips
Don’t prepare by simply memorizing JMeter or LoadRunner features. Prepare to explain an entire performance testing lifecycle.
Take a practical scenario: an application currently supports 5,000 concurrent users but the business expects 20,000 users after a major release.
Be ready to explain:
1️⃣ How you would understand the business workload
2️⃣ How you would design the workload model
3️⃣ Which transactions you would prioritize
4️⃣ How you would create scripts
5️⃣ What correlation/parameterization would be required
6️⃣ How you would define performance benchmarks
7️⃣ Which monitoring metrics you would capture
8️⃣ How you would identify the bottleneck
9️⃣ How you would communicate the findings
🔟 How you would retest after optimization
Also revise the difference between load, stress, spike, endurance and scalability testing.
A particularly useful preparation area is bottleneck analysis. Interviewers may give you high CPU, slow database queries or increasing response times and ask what you would investigate first.
🎤 Expected Mphasis Interview Rounds
Mphasis does not publish a fixed interview sequence specifically for this Performance Engineer vacancy, so the exact process can vary according to the project and hiring team.
For this particular role, a reasonable preparation model would be:
1️⃣ Recruiter Screening – Experience, notice period, location and compensation.
2️⃣ Performance Technical Round – JMeter, LoadRunner, workload modelling, scripting and performance-testing methodology.
3️⃣ Scenario/Bottleneck Round – Troubleshooting production-like performance problems and interpreting monitoring/test results.
4️⃣ Project/Managerial Round – Client communication, ownership, reporting and collaboration with DevOps/development teams.
5️⃣ HR/Final Discussion – Compensation, joining date and other employment details.
💰 Salary Range
The supplied job advertisement does not specify compensation.
As a market reference, Indeed currently reports an average Mphasis Performance Engineer salary of approximately ₹15.68 lakh per year, with reported figures ranging from about ₹10.87 lakh to ₹22.62 lakh annually. However, the sample is small and historical salary submissions can vary considerably.
For a professional with 5–7 years of strong JMeter/LoadRunner and performance-engineering experience, a practical expectation could therefore be around ₹12–22+ LPA, depending on current CTC, technical depth, location, project requirements and negotiation.
📄 Resume Tips
Your resume should immediately communicate Performance Engineering, not generic QA testing.
Use keywords such as:
Performance Engineering | Performance Testing | JMeter | LoadRunner | Load Testing | Stress Testing | Endurance Testing | Workload Modelling | Bottleneck Analysis | Performance Monitoring | APM | SLA | Throughput | Concurrency | Response Time | SQL | Linux | API Performance Testing
Include measurable achievements wherever possible.
Instead of:
❌ “Performed performance testing using JMeter.”
Use:
✅ “Designed and executed JMeter load tests for 10,000+ concurrent users, analyzed response-time and throughput trends, and collaborated with development teams to identify performance bottlenecks.”
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates can DM to AYESHA PATRA and share updated resume if their experience matches the job requirements.
Before applying, highlight your 5–7 years of relevant Performance Engineering experience, JMeter/LoadRunner expertise, monitoring exposure and notice period.
⚠️ Since the role requires 4 days of work from office, candidates should confirm the exact work location, project/client requirements and shift expectations with the recruiter.
🚀 If you’re a Performance Engineer who enjoys investigating why applications slow down under real-world workloads, this Mphasis opportunity could be a strong step toward advanced Performance Engineering and Non-Functional Testing roles.
