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Lead performance engineer for a 12-month contract. Responsible for technical leadership, performance testing, and monitoring. Collaborate with application development teams to ensure high-performing applications.
Key Highlights
Technical lead for performance engineering processes
Collaborate with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks
Design, script, and run performance tests to validate production readiness
Diagnose and manage performance issues to resolution
Provide leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Relocation assistance
Hybrid work arrangement (3 days/week)
12-month contract duration
Job Description
Title: Lead Performance Engineer
Location: Hoover, AL (Hybrid - 3 Days/ Week – Tues, Wed, Thur)
Relocation will work too, who can relocate from Day 1
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Interview Process:
1st Virtual round with Hiring Manager
2nd round with technical team
Job Description:
- min 7 years exp
- will be part of End-to-end performance processes
- Technical lead performance engineer on a project
- gather performance
- write test cases
- load runner
- troubleshoot and helps solve testing problems other team members have
- some coding exposure on any programming language
Must have:
- expert level scripting exp using load runner
- well versed in Monitoring tool - Dynatrace (highly preferred), Splunk (optional)
- strong understanding of software architecture - who can look into solution design documents
Soft skills:
- ask questions
- more communicative/vocal with stakeholders
Job Description:
- At client, the Performance Engineer conducts a wide range of quality control tests and analysis to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements and monitor the performance of the production systems.
- In addition, the Performance Engineer provides guidance and collaborates with various groups to develop and deploy high performing applications and systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks throughout the entire application stack
- Recommend improvements to the architecture and deployment of applications under test
- Emphasizes methods of integrating testing best practices into the application development lifecycle to reduce friction, identify potential problems early, and improve cross-collaboration
- Participates in the Performance Engineering Community of Practice which is a technical platform that enables knowledge sharing and cross-collaboration, drive standardization and innovation
- Collaborate with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches
- Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure
- Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
- Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios
- Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases
- Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution
- Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings
- Provides summaries and assessments of the application’s performance, emphasizing trends over time
- Conducts “deep dive” analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified
- Collaborates with Application Development teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner.
- Participate in Program Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily standup meetings for development teams
- Provides leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers
- Leads or participates in cross-organizational initiatives
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Five (5) years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures on-prem and cloud
- One (1) year of experience in software application development or test automation
Preferences:
- Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices
- Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL), C, C++, C# or Java programming, and automated testing methodologies
- Familiar with container technologies
- Understanding of On Prem and Cloud
- Familiar with open source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk
- Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning
- Experience with cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)
Skills and Competencies:
- Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack
- Effective communication and leadership skills
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk
- Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, Performance Center
- Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner
- Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, n-tier, MQ, CICS)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes