Sr Performance Engineer: Level C1 - 7 to 10 yrs. exp

7+ 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

Required Skills:

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

Preferred Skills:

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

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Job: ENGINEERING

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 14000