Senior Performance Engineer - Software Quality Assurance (6-8 yrs)

Job Description :

Qualifications :

- 6+ years of experience in Software Performance Engineering.

- Expert experience in JMeter / any open-source performance testing tools.

- Expert working knowledge of Splunk/Elk stack.

- Expert performance test engineering experience in API testing both REST and SOAP based APIs.

- Experience performance testing applications and/or REST APIs developed in JavaScript, Node.js, Java/J2EE, Ruby.

- Experience with testing of N-Tier applications that involve Databases at various Tiers.

- Champion everything Performance.

- Ability to work independently with an aptitude for detailed work and follow-up activities.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

- Excellent team player with excellent written & verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities :

(80%) Validation of Quality Applications :

- Hands-on Script development using JMeter/BlazeMeter other open-source tools.

- Estimate performance testing deliverables for all applicable projects.

- Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.

- Recommend new/better tools for performance testing.

- Certify software performance functionality for new Production releases.

- Collaborate with Operations team to monitor applications to ensure applications perform as planned.

- Review, escalate and resolve reported incidents and defects escalated by PulseCare or Customer Care.

- Collaborate with other support teams as needed including Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering and NOC or similar Operations teams.

- Track defects on issues found.

- Perform detailed analysis on any bottlenecks found during test executions.

(20%) Leadership :

- Work with the existing teams to decide on what Performance test tools should be utilized and make sure it's used consistently across the board.

- Coordinate the perf testing efforts including internal and external resources, be on point to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested.

- Develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the various applications.

- Develop dashboard that will help SRE team and others to proactively identify performance related issues.

- Develop and maintain service level metrics for systems, including response time, failover, time to failure, and time to recover.

- Research and help build out a scalable Performance Testing environment that is logically and physically representative of production.