Senior Performance Engineer - Java/JMeter/LoadRunner (7-10 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, i.e. product, development, DBA, middleware, network.

- Assist in the development of estimates for projects.

- Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects.

- Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans.

- Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to stakeholders (business, development).

- Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics.

- Coordinate troubleshooting of infrastructure and application issues.

- Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks.

- Defect tracking and reporting.

- Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner.

- Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics.

- Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems.

- Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis.

- Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities.

- Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Experience required :

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience.

- Minimum of 7 years of related experience.

- Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning).

- Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications.

- Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments.

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

- Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms.

- Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling.

Excellent analytical skills including :

- Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing 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, MSSQL.

- Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc).

- Experience working with Azure services (Virtual Machine, Service Bus, Kubenetes Services).

- Experience working with MongoDB.

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

- Expert MS Office skills.

- Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum).

- In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

- Experience in the financial services industry.