Performance QA Engineer

Performance QA Engineer at Acronis

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, is seeking a Performance QA Engineer to join their mission of protecting the digital world. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the endpoint agent's performance meets high quality standards within release cycles. This urgent position offers hands-on experience with performance testing, analysis, and bug reporting, with growth opportunities in framework development, automation, or visualization based on your background and interests.

What You'll Do

• Participate in release cycles alongside functional regression and new feature testing.
• Execute performance regression tests using our established framework (internal test metrics + automated resource consumption assessment).
• Run performance tests for new features on appropriate agent versions with required parameters.
• Analyze test results, identify performance degradation, and create bug reports when results are poor.
• Dive deep into our existing performance testing framework and release cycle processes (everything is already set up and documented).
• Collaborate with development and QA teams using our established interaction protocols.
• Investigate performance issues using logs, system tools, metrics, and resource monitoring.
• Prepare and maintain performance test environments across Windows / Linux / macOS.
• Work with virtual machines, snapshots, system configurations, and environment setup.
• Validate client–server interactions and resource consumption patterns.
• Participate in discussions with R&D teams to communicate performance risks and bottlenecks.
• Analyze performance data in cooperation with engineering teams.

Note: Contribution, initiative, and improvement suggestions are highly encouraged but not required — focus is on reliable execution of existing processes first.

Who We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in QA, Automation, Support, Software Development, or Performance Testing roles.
• Understanding of QA approaches: test design, test execution, defect lifecycle, regression planning.
• Confident Windows / Linux (and optionally macOS) user: logs, services/drivers, system tools, process inspection, basic diagnostics.
• Basic understanding of networking — enough to understand how client applications communicate with cloud services (DNS, service endpoints, certificates, basic connectivity concepts).
• Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS fundamentals and REST API basics.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation and architecture descriptions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English (Upper-Intermediate+).
• Experience with performance testing concepts (load, stress, resource monitoring).
• Basic scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, C, C#).
• Practical experience using AI tools to accelerate routine tasks (prompting, summarization, log analysis), including safe handling of data within NDA boundaries.

Good To Have Qualifications

• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM) or containers.
• Familiarity with client–server or distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, or artifact repositories.
• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts.
• Ability to work efficiently in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, or similar).
• Interest in contributing to testing frameworks, automation, or data visualization.
• Familiarity with Windows Performance Toolkit (WPR, WPA) or Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) for performance analysis.

Key skills/competency

• Performance Testing
• QA Automation
• System Diagnostics
• Networking Protocols
• Scripting (Python, Bash)
• Test Result Analysis
• Resource Monitoring
• Cyber Protection
• Virtualization
• Defect Management