Performance Test Engineer

Primary Responsibilities:

Support end to end performance testing for projects independently, using Agile methodologies

Assist in the development of estimates, resource requirements, and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects

Review business use cases, user stories, and other functional and non-functional requirements to identify key performance indicators

Review design documents, infrastructure implementations, and code to identify potential performance bottlenecks and defects

Prepare load simulators, monitoring tools, and other automation to sustainably test the products against specifications.

Develop custom tools and load simulators and integrate them in CICD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket.

Analyze full stack of the application (web server, application server, database, etc.), identify performance bottlenecks (at application and OS layers) and support performance tuning exercises.

Participate in defect tracking and reporting.

Build, publish, and support reusable components to automate repeatable, manual test activities.

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of related experience

Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)

Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications

Experience working in Unix or Linux environments

Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest)

Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms

Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling

Excellent analytical skills including:

Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques

Time series analysis and forecasting

Key Performance and volume metrics relationship modeling

Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC

Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.

Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)

Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system

Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML

Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle

Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc)

Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool

Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills

Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)

Experience in the financial services industry is good to have