Performance Engineering Roles in Industry: Challenges and Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required to meet them

Abstract

In this extended abstract, the author highlights the various roles as a performance engineer in the industry. Based on his experience, some of the important tasks to perform in each role is listed. Also listed along with it a set of skills to be acquired for each role. It is hoped that these will help bridge the gap between academic course and industrial requirements in performance engineering in performance engineering. The structure of the presentation will closely follow that of this paper.