Java Performance Engineer

Java Performance Engineer

Duration: Contract Location: Austin, TX (on-site)

Job Description

For this role, we are looking for passionate performance engineers with excellent technical and communication skills. This role provides you opportunities to work on Performance testing of various software applications and technologies at Apple IS&T in many business segments. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong programming and communication skills. As a Performance Engineer, you'll need to work with development engineers and functional analysts, understand new cutting edge software, and identify performance tuning opportunities. You'll work on emerging technologies like BTP as you design and conduct performance tests. You should have in-depth knowledge and experience of performance testing, troubleshooting and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and apply performance/scalability benchmarks. Work in cross-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
• Work efficiently with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide root cause analysis.
• Devise and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance impacts of system changes.
• Plan and execute performance tests using an automated testing environment and conduct analysis of results.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts and own quality perspectives for the design.
• Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
• Experience in performance testing tools - LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, Postman.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture, and RESTful APIs. Strong knowledge of performance-tuning SQL queries