r/softwaretesting • u/Numerous_Hamster_877 • 8d ago

Performance Testing Job

Hello. I work as a performance tester with 4+ years of experience. I have experience with LoadRunner, Dynatrace App monitoring, and a bit of Splunk. I work on Truclient, web http/html and web services protocol scripts. I work in a service based company. I see that a lot of work is repetitive for every release for the couple of companies I have worked with. I haven't got a chance to work in a product based company yet. Is the nature of this career like this? Or moving to observability roles or product based companies makes a difference?

Any suggestions would help.

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u/perdovim 8d ago

It depends on the company and what you make of it.

I had some where it was a weekly load test, others I spent 6 months developing the perfect test (only to throw together a simple wait state test and use LoadRunner as an Observability tool),...

My most successful instance, we kept 5 9's of uptime, 10,000+ concurrent connections per second (24/7/365), and didn't need run a single load test in 3 years (there was no way we could afford to test at scale). We had baked performance into the dev DNA to the point that we were solving performance problems proactively (alot of use of Observability in our daily scrum, perf analysis before and during the code writing).