Performance Test Engineer, Senior

ABS is seeking a Sr. Performance Test Engineer to provide Performance Test Engineering services to different customer facing applications. This position will be responsible for inclusive but not limited to Capturing applications’ current performance, Scripting, Result analysis to pinpoint bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements, develop performance baseline (SLA), Infrastructure monitoring, Thresholds setup, Alerting, and Azure cloud migration support. Our goal is to improve overall customer satisfaction.
Are you a talented communicator with passion for technical topics? Do you like to solve a variety of problems with and for your customers? Then this is the right challenge for you.

What You Will Do:

• Participate in software and system performance analysis, tuning, and demand/capacity planning for business critical, large scale, and high availability applications.
• Manage the availability, scalability, security, and performance of applications.
• Play a key role in infrastructure provisioning, system configuration, and deployments.
• Models’ technical requirements to evaluate performance impacts.
• Develop performance test scenarios and scripts by analyzing application and usage patterns.
• Run scripts and analyze performance test results to evaluate impact on production infrastructure and make comparisons with previous release benchmarks.
• Review test executions to confirm that performance tests are valid and operating as expected.
• Identify issues in the test execution, test data, and performance environment that are impacting tests.
• Perform in-depth technical root cause analysis for high priority issues spanning all technology layers/stacks and engage developers, product, architecture teams as appropriate for resolution.
• Provide tuning recommendations to resolve complex performance issues (response time, throughput, Heap, CPU and garbage collection, etc.).
• Analyze performance issues by looking at heap dumps, thread dumps, CPU, and memory usage metrics.
• Provide tuning recommendations for heap, CPU, thread related application issues.
• Solve problems, analyze performance issues, and provide solutions.
• Works with cross functional project teams to define performance metrics and acceptance criteria.
• Mentors less experienced performance Test Engineers.

What You Will Need:

Education & Experience:

• A minimum of 8-10 years of previous related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent, preferably in Computer Science or a related field, from an accredited university or equivalent industry experience. Advanced degree or comparable on-the-job experience is also required.
• Strong leader in QA Process and Strategies to remodel Performance Testing plan from scratch.
• Capable of creating scripts & scenarios, running and analyzing test results in JMeter/NeoLoad/LoadRunner tool, configuring monitoring tool e.g. Log Rocket, Datadog, AppDynamics and setting up agents in application and Database servers.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (ADO, Bamboo, Jenkins, Harness etc.).
• Experience in Performance analysis of Microservices and Java Applications.
• Working knowledge across all major tiers and technologies associated with distributed web applications.
• Strong in Cloud computing (Possibly certified AWS or Azure practitioner).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

• Strong background in SDLC and Agile (Scrum) software development methodology.
• Hands on experience with load, performance, accessibility, stress, and security testing.
• Expertise with various programming languages (C#, Java Script, JSON, AJAX, HTML5, etc.).
• Strong problem solving, multi-tasking abilities, excellent presentation skills.
• Experience with Unit, API, and Web performance testing in a variety of tools.
• Experience with at least one system monitoring tools for example Datadog, Log Rocket, Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics etc.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and command-line interface (CLI) testing.
• Understanding of PaaS & SaaS environments and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.

Reporting Relationships:

Will report to Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance or Director.

Working Conditions:

The work environment will primarily be an air-conditioned office setting requiring the employee to sit for prolonged periods while concentrating on a computer screen.