Sr. Performance Engineer

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General Objective of the Function

Load/Performance Quality Engineers are responsible for design, implements and improves load automation framework solution for the developed products of the K rber. Must be able to work in an agile team environment with other quality engineers, software engineers, quality analysts, technical writers, and product owners. Must be skilled in performance engineer principles and standards

Role / Responsibilities / Main Tasks (in brief)

• Analyze the business scenarios and understand the non-functional requirements
• Build modular automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based applications and mobile applications utilizing SOA design and APIs in a continuous integration environment to provide remediation plans
• Utilizing load, stress, and analysis tools to model performance scenarios, perform initial analysis using performance monitoring tools, and identify potential system and resource bottlenecks
• Analyze performance results and produce relevant reports and quality metrics with suggestions for improvements
• Research new ways of performance testing and recommend system configuration and tuning improvements based on observations
• Some experience load/perf testing microservices for SaaS products will be valuable. Performance testing a UI AND performance testing APIs and microservices with other service dependencies.
• Work with the development, QA, DevOps, and Services teams as required to analyze the load execution results
• Work under the technical team lead and director in delivering non-functional test solutions that meet defined objectives, schedules, standards, and cost targets and reflect the technical test strategy
• Take ownership of the non-functional test solution from project initiation to final acceptance, with responsibility for each milestone within the release cycles
• Mentor and guiding other team members are required with the technical test resources
• Provide professional project planning, estimation, non-functional test approaches, technical test solution quality, issue/risk management, and results/analysis considering the department standards
• Working knowledge of cloud environments and deployments
• Develops dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of client applications.
• Provide actionable information and suggestions for the scalability and security of the application
• Develops and executes load automated test scripts using any load testing tools like or similar to K6, JMeter, Load Runner
• Work with the DevOps and services teams to define the test data for performance test execution
• Executes and maintains the continuous integration pipeline
• Suggests new tools and techniques to improve the testing team s productivity
• Must participate in demos and code reviews to learn how the feature functions to write load test cases and give feedback on the design
• Proactively seek assistance as needed to complete work in a reasonable amount of time
• Proactively seek to provide ideas on how to automate the product(s)
• Mentor more junior quality engineers in the QE process, QE tools, Products, etc
• Works independently while following established guidelines and delivering quality work on time at defined checkpoints
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously and delivers on-time results
• Actively participate in the Agile process such as daily huddles, estimating, code reviews, and retrospectives
• Continuous education to stay up to date on new automation practices

Main Interfaces of Cooperation & Communication

• Director of Quality Assurance - Quality Assurance Process direction and testing status updates
• Peformance Team Lead - Work direction and team status updates
• More Senior Software Quality Engineers - Product Details
• More SDO - Product Details
• Product Owner/Manager - Requirement direction
• Team Members - Participate as part of a cross-functional Agile team

Educations, Requirements, and Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree (Automation, Computer Science, or related field) or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Performance testing tools like Jmeter, Neoload, K6, LoadRunner or any other similar performance testing tools

Professional Requirements/Skills

• Experience with Load/Performance Tools used in the project
• Experience with performance monitoring tools
• Experience with cloud-based performance testing and monitoring tools
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of different technologies and methodologies including SDLCs, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, Source Control, etc.
• Good understanding of any Performance tools, Performance Stats, C#, Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL, SQL tuning, Tracing tools, Azure DevOps, VSTest Console, Junit, and PowerShell.

Required Personal and Social Competencies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to ensure the ability to write automation test plans and strategy
• Strong attention to detail to communicate bugs to developers and other team members
• Ability to communicate ideas in user-friendly language
• Excellent listening, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability
• Behave in a manner to promote a strong team morale
• Consistently share information with team members to promote a strong cross-functional team

Required Management & Leadership Competencies (if applicable)

• Not required

Help enable those who move goods to do good by contributing your skills and individual viewpoints in a highly collaborative, caring team environment.

K rber Supply Chain Software better enables those who move goods to do good when we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. It s better for our people, better for our business, and better for the world. That s why at K rber we cultivate and celebrate our colleagues experiences and perspectives, whether they look, think, move, believe, or love differently than us. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment and pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to gender and identity, age, race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or veteran status.