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SalaryTitle: Performance Test Engineer
Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA or Norfolk, VA or Mason, Ohio
IV Process: 2 Rounds
Job Description:
Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA or Norfolk, VA or Mason, Ohio
IV Process: 2 Rounds
Job Description:
- Someone who has led triaging of Production Performance Issues and identified problem areas during the triage
- Leads and coordinates performance engineering for medium to large initiatives. Collect and document expected system performance and operational characteristics.
- Collect and/or prepare test data for test execution.
- Develop and execute Performance Tests including load, stress, endurance, fail-over and interoperability.
- Conduct technical analysis of Performance Test results and production systems, and provide recommendations on performance tuning, systems, and infrastructure.
- Identify, report, and review defects in assessing system performance and stability.
- Create reports to document performance metrics, test results, analysis and recommendations.
- Monitor performance of production systems.
- Leads peer reviews to ensure the completeness of all test assets created.
- Understand and follow all applicable SDLC and performance engineering processes.
- Resolve performance and stability issues in Performance Test environment. Leads performance defect triage.
- Plan and coordinate performance engineering efforts in support of key initiatives.
- Determine level of effort and resource requirements for customer engagements. Develop performance engineering work plan structure and project schedule.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure complete understanding of performance and operational requirements.
- Review architectural design for performance risks and potential issues.
- Prepare capacity analysis when applicable.
- Facilitate team efforts across multiple projects and/or systems. Facilitate improvement of the performance engineer process in the SDLC.
- Facilitate resolution of production performance and stability issues.
- Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems; minimum of 7 years performance engineering and Performance Testing experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
- Over 5 years of hands-on experience with Performance testing tools listed below -
- Performance Testing Tools - Microfocus LoadRunner with protocols like Web [HTTP/HTML] & Web services [SOAP & REST], Client ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)/Client Performance Center
- Performance Monitoring Tools - CA Introscope, Splunk
- Debugging tools - Fiddler/HttpWatch
- Validating SOAP requests/REST API payloads with SOAP UI/Postman
