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Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

Posted 27 Aug 2026

Performance Test Engineer - AI

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Employment
Full time
Team
IT Operations
Posted
27 Aug 2026

About the role

We are looking for an AI Performance Test Engineer to evaluate, optimize, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and responsiveness of AI-powered applications and platforms. The role involves performance testing of APIs, AI/ML services, LLM-based applications, and distributed systems under varying workloads.


Responsibilities:

  • Design and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests for AI-driven applications.
  • Analyze system performance bottlenecks across frontend, backend, APIs, and AI models.
  • Validate response times, throughput, concurrency, and system stability.
  • Test AI/LLM workflows, inference latency, and streaming responses.
  • Work closely with development, DevOps, and AI/ML teams to optimize performance.
  • Create performance reports, benchmarks, and recommendations.
  • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.


Requirements:

  • Experience with performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6 and Locust.
  • Strong understanding of API performance testing, Distributed systems and microservices, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • Exposure to AI/ML or Generative AI applications.
  • Knowledge of monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic.
  • Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 4-7 years of performance testing experience.
  • Experience testing AI-enabled systems is preferred.

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