- Collaborates with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks throughout the entire application stack
- Recommends improvements to the architecture and deployment of applications under test
- Emphasizes methods of integrating testing best practices into the application development lifecycle to reduce friction, identify potential problems early, and improve cross-collaboration
- Participates in the Performance Engineering Community of Practice which is a technical platform that enables knowledge sharing and cross-collaboration, drive standardization and innovation
- Collaborates with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches
- Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure
- Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
- Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios
- Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases
- Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution
- Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings
- Provides summaries and assessments of the application's performance, emphasizing trends over time
- Conducts "deep dive” analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified
- Collaborates with AD teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner.
- Participate in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily standup meetings for development teams.
- Provides leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers
- Leads or participates in cross-organizational initiatives
This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.
Requirements
- Five (5) years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures onprem and cloud
- One (1) year of experience in software application development or test automation
Preferences
- Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices
- Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL), C, C++, C# or Java programming, and automated testing methodologies
- Familiar with container technologies
- Understanding of On Prem and Cloud
- Familiar with open source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk
- Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning
- Experience with cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)
Skills and Competencies
- Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes
- Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk
- Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, Performance Center
- Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, ntier, MQ, CICS IMainframe))
- Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Effective communication and leadership skills
Should this be of interest to you or someone you know, please reply to this email along with your most updated resume and contact details. Please also let me know the best time to connect over a call and I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have. Many of the positions I am currently working on are time-sensitive, so please respond to this message at your earliest convenience.