Junior Performance QA Engineer

About Veeam Software

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, empowers businesses with control over their data whenever and wherever needed. Specializing in data backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, ensuring business continuity. Join our team to make a real impact for some of the world's biggest brands and contribute to the future of data resilience.

About The Role: Junior Performance QA Engineer

The Veeam Quality Assurance team invites you to join their professionals in the Prague R&D office. As a Junior Performance QA Engineer, you will gain hands-on experience with performance and load testing of enterprise-grade data protection products used globally. You will collaborate with experienced performance engineers, developers, and product teams, learning how large-scale systems behave under various workloads and how to identify and resolve performance issues.

What You'll Do

• Participate in performance, load, and basic scalability testing of Veeam product components.
• Assist with test planning, test execution, and collection of performance metrics.
• Analyze test results under guidance to identify potential bottlenecks, regressions, or abnormal behavior.
• Help maintain and operate performance test labs, including environment setup, configuration, and basic monitoring.
• Reproduce performance-related issues reported by QA, Development, or Technical Support.
• Collaborate with other QA engineers, developers, and product managers to validate fixes and improvements.
• Document test results, observations, and findings in a clear and structured way.

What You'll Bring

• Technical education or strong interest in systems, performance, and infrastructure.
• Initial experience or strong academic background in performance or load testing (internships, projects, labs are acceptable).
• Basic understanding of operating systems: Windows and Linux.
• General knowledge of system components (CPU, memory, storage, networking) and how they impact performance.
• Analytical mindset, attention to detail, willingness to learn structured problem analysis.
• English proficiency for daily communication within international teams.

Bonus Skills

• Basic experience with databases (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Introductory scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms or cloud environments.
• Interest in test automation or infrastructure-as-code concepts.

What You'll Get

Veeam offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth:

• Generous Leave: 25 vacation days, 4 sick days, 21 paid medical leave days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares.
• Health & Wellness: Premium private medical insurance for employees and dependents, daily meal vouchers (180 CZK per working day), Multisport Card for gym and wellness.
• Financial & Commute Support: Flexible cafeteria platform with thousands of lifestyle benefit options, annual public transport reimbursement, corporate mobile plan with optional family tariff.
• Learning & Development: Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning.

Key skills/competency

• Performance Testing
• Load Testing
• Scalability Testing
• QA Engineering
• Systems Performance
• Windows Operating System
• Linux Operating System
• Troubleshooting
• Data Protection
• Test Documentation