# QA Software (Load & Performance) Test Engineer

Shape the utilities market of the future with us! We are looking for a “Load and Performance Engineer” to design, execute, analyze, and report performance tests for the ZONOS ecosystem with it’s modules/Connectors related to MDM & HES, APIs, streaming services, databases, and integration components.The engineer will define realistic load profiles, simulate production-like traffic, identify bottlenecks, measure system capacity, and provide performance recommendations before release or customer deployment. What is the role about? Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and execute load, stress, scalability, spike, and failover performance tests for HES/MDM product Create realistic test scenarios covering: ZONOS API and Southbound API VEE processing MDUS / data ingestion flows Device events, alarms, meter reads, topology, and profile data Kafka/streaming pipelines Database-heavy operations ZCP user workflows where relevant Define performance KPIs such as:response time throughput transactions per second message ingestion rate processing latency CPU/memory usage database load Kafka lag error rate queue depth Maintain load test scripts using tools such as “JMeter, k6, Simulator and Mock serve”.Monito

- **Id**: 1323303
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cuculus-qa-software-load-performance-test-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-30T12:03:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:18:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 105
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2978
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy & Utilities, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management

## Company

- **Id**: 3829421
- **Name**: Cuculus
- **Domain**: cuculus.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cuculus-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Personio

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 9000
- **Max usd**: 23000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 14

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Groovy** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **k6** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 105

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T23:53:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 104
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:10, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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