Performance QA Lead

About Impact Analytics Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000. For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co. The impact that you will be making We are looking for a hands-on and detail-oriented Performance QA Lead to drive performance engineering across our products. The role will own performance test planning, strategy, execution, analysis, and performance issue resolution across frontend and backend systems. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on performance testing expertise with the ability to work closely with DevOps and Engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and improve system scalability. What this role entails Own and execute end-to-end performance test plans and strategies aligned with product requirements and expected workloads. Understand real-world usage patterns, workload models, concurrency, throughput, response-time expectations, and translate them into performance scenarios. Design and execute separate performance testing approaches for frontend and backend components, identifying bottlenecks across the application stack. Leverage existing functional test scenarios and workflows to build meaningful performance test cases. Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, and/or LoadView. Work closely with DevOps and Engineering teams on environment readiness, monitoring, workload execution, capacity analysis, and performance improvements. Analyze test results, logs, metrics, traces, and system behavior to identify, isolate, and troubleshoot performance issues. Identify root causes of performance bottlenecks and work closely with teams to drive resolution. Drive root-cause analysis and collaborate with engineering teams to recommend and validate performance fixes. Establish performance benchmarks, baseline metrics, regression checks, and actionable reporting for stakeholders. Mentor QA/performance engineers and provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in hands-on execution. What lands you in this role 10–12 years of experience in performance testing with significant hands-on ownership. Strong understanding of performance testing concepts including load, stress, endurance/soak, spike,…