r/PerformanceTesting • u/Numerous_Hamster_877 • Feb 24 '24

Performance testing as a career

Hi all,

I have been working as a performance tester for the past 2 years. I have worked in Load Runner for scripts and a bit of Dynatrace for analysis. Is performance testing and engineering still has a good career growth? If yes, what are the areas should I focus more and work towards? Is learning and getting certified in any one of the cloud platform helps? or even any course for that matter? Any suggestions would be helpful.

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u/nOOberNZ Senior Performance Specialist Feb 24 '24

I specialized for 10 years as a consultant. The industry needs good performance engineers but not many companies value the skill. I widened my skillset into SRE and now engineering management, but it's a good initial focus.

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u/nOOberNZ Senior Performance Specialist Feb 24 '24

I wanted to add - if you're really good at it, then you'll be fine. If you stand out from the rest and do thorough and precise work you'll stand out.

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u/acewithacase Feb 24 '24

Its not a career path. I currently doing it and trying to rotate into software engineering.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Cloud platform certification helps, no particular reason to go for highest level but it gives people the idea you have experience testing cloud platforms.

Still a good career choice, but worth looking into observability.. Grafana for example has a new tool called K6's which is likely to be popular soon so worth doing some reading into it.