Senior Performance Engineer

Lead/Sr Performance Engineer: L3 5-7 yrs. exp

• 5+ years of progressive technical experience in Software engineering, Performance Engineering, Site-Reliability and DevOps


• Be a performance test advocate and advisor to the various engineering teams


• Extensive experience with various kinds of load testing tools


• Experience conducting performance testing to ensure system capacity, reliability, and scalability


• Ability to understand and translate test requirements into a testable and correct design


• Ability to develop a test plan as required


• Strong hands-on experience with JMeter & LoadRunner


• Knowledge of performance monitoring tools


• Hands-on experience analyzing reports and documenting observations to identify bottlenecks


• Investigates & reports project issues by communicating & working with various departments including Development, Product, Project Management, Systems & Application support groups, Network Engineering, etc., as well as other project teams


• Using workload information and performance results to identify and understand performance bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations


• Contribute actively to Performance Engineering team s development and testing processes


• Communicate and collaborate across levels, functions, and organizational boundaries


• Experience with Performance test framework development and automation


• Experience working with large scale distributed systems and cloud technologies

Experience with some of the following technologies and services:

• Cloud technologies (especially AWS)


• Load testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad etc.


• Application Monitoring Tools - New Relic, Google Analytics, CloudWatch


• Experience with Continuous Integration environments

• Ability to work with Java, Python, or similar language


• Knowledge of Virtualization & Containerization (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc.)


• Demonstrate excellent Resiliency Engineering skills and solid understanding of distributed systems to improve reliability and availability