Principal /Lead Performance at Qualys, Pune

Job Description
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

We invite you to be part of motivated and agile Qualys engineering team responsible for developing high-end Cloud based Security Solutions. This opening is your chance to work in the rapidly expanding field of computer security, in a company with excellent customer ratings and outstanding growth rates. In this position you will be testing product for quality and performance, building utilities for automated functionality testing, and utilize advanced testing methodologies to deliver cutting edge products.

This position is for our fastest growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is part of multi-continent engineering team.

Responsibilities:

Proficient in Performance testing tools like JMeter
Manage for planning and creating automated performance tests, executing tests, and results to measure performance, scalability, stability and reliability.
Expertise in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Work Load Design, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management.
Experience in Application Monitoring Tools like AppDynamics.
Experience in Applications like ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Grafana, Kafka.
Hands-on experience in writing and executing performance test scenarios for complex systems.
Hands-on experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, performance tuning, performance monitoring in a microservices environment
Perform analysis of performance issues in Pre-production and/or Production environments.
Hands- on experience in analyzing the performance results - Capture/Analyze/Interpret technical data - performance metrics from application, database, OS, and Network.
Demonstrated ability to capture key metrics, create accurate status reports and effectively communicate to the stake holders.
Experience in Cloud (AWS / Azure) environment, Docker/Kubernetes.
Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Network usage, Garbage Collection to verify the performance of the applications.
Identifying memory leakage, connection issues & Bottleneck problem in the application.
Generate performance graphs, session reports, and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
Publish results and provide appropriate signoff. Prepare detailed status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues.
Good understanding of basic DB tuning, application server tuning and common issues around performance and scalability.
Strong problem-solving skills and very good communication and time management skills.

Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
9+ years of work experience in the field of software testing and test automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applications
Good experience in web applications user interface and RESTful web services testing both at functional and non-functional level
Knowledge of Java programming that could be used in automation frameworks
Experience in writing automation tools/framework (Selenium, JMeter)
Understanding of XML, XSD, JSON, REST and SOAP and demonstrated experience with web services APIs
Good understanding of computer networks and networking concepts
Working knowledge of SQL Databases, like Oracle
Good exposure to Linux platform
Agile development experience