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Job Description

Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 10 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Compensation: View salary Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We have an immediate requirement for a Principal Performance Test Engineer to join our hardworking Performance Engineering team.

The Performance Architect is a software engineer and performance analyst with a passion for optimizing the performance of applications.

This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods.

They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver successful, business-critical applications.

Principal Performance Test Engineer to join our hardworking Performance Engineering team.

The Performance Architect is a software engineer and performance analyst with a passion for optimizing the performance of applications.

This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods.

They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver hard-working, business-critical applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, e.g. product, development, DBA, middleware, network

Assist in the development of estimates for projects

Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects

Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans

Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to collaborators (business, development)

Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics

Coordinate solving of infrastructure and application issues

Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks

Defect tracking and reporting

Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner

Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics

Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems

Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis

Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities

Mitigate risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience

Minimum of 7 years of related experience

Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)

Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications

Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments

Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk)

Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms

Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling

Excellent analytical skills including:

Data exploration, analysis and presentation using descriptive statistics and graphical techniques

Time series analysis and forecasting

Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling

Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools – TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC

Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.

Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)

Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system

Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML

Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle

Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc)

Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool

Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)

In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)

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