Sr Quality Engineer - Performance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026.
Overview
Are you ready to help shape a global digital transformation and accelerate the growth of a multi-million-dollar B2B digital business? Waters is a world leader in life science technologies with nearly $3B in annual revenue-and our digital ecosystem is a key driver of that success.
Our platforms power eCommerce and digital services in 100+ countries and 10+ languages, supporting multiple customer segments through Waters.com and a variety of digital commerce channels including eCommerce, eProcurement, and EDI.
If you’re excited by impactful work on a global scale, let’s talk.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end performance coverage identify bottlenecks and work with the Engineering teams to address issues.
- Plans testing activities milestones: Identifies and analyzes risks and their potential business impact to determine proper prioritization of the testing activities; Suggests and handles mitigations and escalations as part of risk assessment.
- Collaborate with operations and application engineering teams to design and execute production day scenarios that will help enhance emergency response processes
- Contributes to the Quality strategy within the delivery team.
- Passion and drive for Performance, Scalability and Reliability of all systems.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and agile development.
Qualifications
- BE/B.Tech or Equivalent with 5+ years
- Deep technical skill in performance engineering and tuning of complex distributed computing systems, especially in cloud-based environments.
- Proven experience with JMeter and Blazemeter
- Experience in using UI profilers and deep knowledge of chrome developer tools
- Deep Understanding of JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and garbage collector tuning, heap dump
- Experience evaluating and interpreting large volume of production data using tools like Datadog or Splunk to know efficiency, latency, memory, and CPU utilization
- Experience working with microservices architecture design pattern.
- Understanding of performance measurements, especially around UI scrolling performance and network use.
- Experience of whole project lifecycle. Able to estimate and execute tasks throughout the lifecycle including architecture, design, and development.
- Deep Understanding of architectural concepts including performance and capacity planning, network/infrastructure planning, security architecture, and systems integration.
- Deep understanding of systems design, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, caching, CDN and persistence.
- Able to articulate business solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies (Agile, SCRUM).
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.