Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer: Systems Operations Engineer

Company's client is seeking a Software Engineer with strong performance engineering experience. This engineer must have LoadRunner experience.

In this role, candidate will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments.
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments.
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures.
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients' needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals.
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced Staff.

Required Qualifications, US:

• 4 plus years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Coding Experience with C/C++
• Deep understanding of Non Functional / Performance Requirements for applications and how to effectively gather, document, and validate them from production data
• Experience with developing test plans and performance scripts, executing performance tests, and analyzing performance results.
• Experience with Performance Engineering tools such as Performance Center/LoadRunner and BlazeMeter.
• Experience with performing deep dive analysis using Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Splunk, OVPM, ITRS.
• Strong Communication skills and ability to work in partnership with application teams.
• Responsible for communicating project status, resolving project issues, and ensuring effective process improvement feedback.

Required Qualifications, International:

• Experience in Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working in Agile Scrum and Kanban teams with tools such as Jira
• Experience with DevOps & CI/CD practices with tools like Jenkins, working in Agile development life cycle.
• Performance tuning experience for platforms, containers, communications, and software stacks; to include Linux, Java, Nodejs, cache, browsers, and mobile.
• Experience in analyzing the memory/thread dumps and identify the performance vitals like memory, CPU usage, crashes etc.
• Self-motivated and flexible to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work as a team and in partnership with application development teams.
• Experience using team collaboration site like Confluence or SharePoint.
• Experience in database system such as Oracle, SQL Server or Teradata & SQL.
• Experience in network, service, and data virtualization.
• Experience and understanding of cloud architecture/design.
• Knowledge and understanding of Git/GitHub and uDeploy.

Job Expectations:

• Working autonomously on Performance requirements gathering, test development and scripting, workload profiling.
• Manage and actively participate in the performance test defect resolution process; provide defect descriptions, root cause, scope, risks and impact of a problem and facilitating defect reviews.
• Lead Performance Tuning activities in partnership with application development teams.