Building Jira Performance Test Framework
Built a phased framework to test Jira at customer-scale data volumes before cloud migration.
- Performance Testing
- Cloud Migration
- Site Inflation
- Engineering Leadership
Nitin Goel
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
From their time as
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian • 2025
Overview
Nitin led a five-person team building a Jira performance test framework for data center to cloud migration. The framework modeled customer-scale data and identified bottlenecks for internal teams to address.
The Story
Nitin took on a Jira cloud migration readiness problem: teams needed a reliable way to understand how customer-scale sites would behave under different data conditions. The work needed to test realistic combinations of tickets, comments, and custom fields.
He built the framework from scratch, created the project plan, and led a five-person team while contributing code. The team also developed site inflation and deflation flows that populated test sites with data resembling real customer environments.
Nitin structured execution in phases, testing workloads such as 10,000, 50,000, and 100,000 fields. When an entity caused an issue during inflation, the team could deflate it and continue isolating the remaining conditions.
The framework helped internal teams identify bottleneck entities and address them before migration. It also supported customer guidance on when data center sites could move to cloud.
Ownership Snapshot
Broad role
Technical lead for Jira performance testing.
Goal
Validate customer-scale Jira sites for cloud migration readiness.
Direct ownership
Built the framework, planned the work, and led daily technical delivery.
Team execution
Led a five-person team through phased testing and analysis.