Software Development Engineer - Test - Performance Testing (6-8 yrs)

The Performance Engineer is responsible for setting the standards and best practices of software Performance Testing into the overall quality assurance process for web-based APIs developed by the Partner Web Services team.

The individual will ensure Performance testing has been accounted/executed for all projects. This individual will be coding, reviewing code, executing scripts, reporting out results and overseeing the overall Performance testing process. (Mainly LoadRunner/Performance Center experience will not be considered)

Skills/Requirements :

- 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.

Responsibilities - (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.