Collaborate with product engineers and development programmers on software project teams to build performance plans.
Configure load test environments that target Frontend app’s, Micro services, Portal and architectures.
Run and monitor performance, durability, and scalability test suites.
Design, develop, and execute automated tests and monitor performance tests to validate solutions and environments.
Maintain and extend the load test framework including all programs and scripts that prep environments, create data sets, consolidate results, and clean up after load tests.
Assist product teams in constructing meaningful, well thought out load test workload models.
Work with product teams to move performance testing earlier in the development process through micro-benchmarking of individual services.
Help product teams define performance test success criteria.
Execute Load/Performance Tests that integrate workloads from multiple teams.
Perform analysis of performance test results.
Take initiative to advance the quality, performance, or scalability of our applications, by influencing the architecture or design of our products.
Collaborate with project architects and project lead developers to prove the validity of new software technologies.
Participate in regular meetings, both within the team and across it, to discuss previous accomplishments, upcoming goals, and any roadblocks in the way.
Skills and Abilities:
Someone with the below experience would be the right fit for this position.
Performance Testing Tools: preferred: Jmeter, with strong Jmeter scripting experience.
Performance Analyzing/debugging: java Garbage collection and Thread dumps.
Frontend: Performance testing experience with Node.js and react.js websites.
Experience in dockerized applications and mobile performance testing.
Other technology awareness: Kafka performance, Ingress performance, Graphql performance, Proxy performance, AWS Technology, Linux commands to extract basic server stats and TCP connections.
Education and Experience:
Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
3+ years creating and performing Load/Performance tests with Jmeter.
Demonstrated experience planning, developing, and collaborating on load test frameworks.
Experience, preferably extensive experience working in a Linux/UNIX based environment.
Experience identifying and measuring bottlenecks in multi-tier enterprise applications running on Linux platforms.
