Performance Engineer

Job Description

Performance Engineer Role Description Workstreams and Responsibilities Performance Testing and Monitoring Performance Monitoring, Triage, and First pass Root Cause Analysis Assistance with SLA recommendations, maintenance and enforcement Enforcement of Performance SLDC processes Performance specific Development backlog recommendations and Bug Fix requests Performance Test Creation Performance Test Maintenance Test Environment maintenance as needed and Test schedule coordination (or coordination with devOps/environment owners) Feature Performance Testing during initial Development. Load testing Infrastructure Testing Performance Regression testing (automated/manual or coordination with app owners) Performance Engineering Consulting Advanced Root Cause Analysis, triage, and solution recommendations Assistance with Performance Risk Assessments during Architecture review/project intake Training and tooling recommendations for Development SMEs and teams to aid in issue resolution Develop and maintain performance monitoring and reporting tools. Design, develop, and execute performance tests and benchmarks to evaluate software performance. Participate in performance reviews during SDLC and provide recommendations for optimal design and improvements based on performance test results. Collaboration with Development SME’s and teams to resolve performance issues (may go deep here with hands on debugging and analysis, depending on the need) Performance Evangelism and knowledge sharing Technology/Engineering wide Maintenance and Enforcement of SLA’s and best practices Enforcement of Perf SLDC processes Development backlog recommendations and Bug Fix requests Tools/Languages/Skills Baseline Functional QA Engineering experience (automated test case creation and execution, Software Quality best practices) Baseline Functional Software Engineering Experience (Ideally experience at minimum Production Support experience with the apps and/or stacks we’re supporting, OR general, Senior+ level extremely adaptable/flexible platform engineering experience) Experience performance tuning applications and making tuning, capacity and scalability recommendations Strong understanding of software architecture and Performance principles and best-practices Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Test Automation Scripting Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) Performance Profiling Tools - VisualVM/JProfiler etc Performance monitoring tools - Dynatrace/App Dynamics/Splunk Datadog etc Experience with BOTH on premises hosting and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) is ideal. Devops skillset is a plus -Understanding of how to build/deploy/maintain apps and environments Java (various versions) Javascript (React JS, Node JS, single page app experience a plus) RESTful API services SQL, PL/SQL