Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities/Duties

• 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.