Performance Test Engineer

• Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system.• Work with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.• 

  Hands on experience in Unix/Linux OS environments and operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols System internals. Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers.

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  Expert knowledge and strong experience using tools, Loadrunner/Jmeter,. etc. and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET,. etc

  • Coding Knowledge in programming languages like 

  Java/Python

   and scripting languages is must• Evaluate, develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visas most critical payment applications.• Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.• Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives. Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders• Should be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used• Should be able to able to look at the code and suggest optimization techniques.• Should have ability to work independently and be a team player.• Actively contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises.• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of issues related to performance degradation incidents in production environment• Monitor application performance, optimize performance bottlenecks and usage to create an application capacity model.• Help optimizing system components such as CPU/Memory/Disk/Network & OS/Application software for maximizing the computer resources utilization.

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