Principal Performance Test Engineer

About the job Principal Performance Test Engineer

Experience level:
Mid-senior

Experience required: 10 Years

Job function:
Information Technology

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• We have an immediate requirement for a Principal Performance Test Engineer to join our hardworking Performance Engineering team.

• The Performance Architect is a software engineer and performance analyst with a passion for optimizing the performance of applications.

• This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of DTCC distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods.

• They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver successful, business-critical applications.

• Principal Performance Test Engineer to join our hardworking Performance Engineering team.

• The Performance Architect is a software engineer and performance analyst with a passion for optimizing the performance of applications.

• This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of DTCC distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods.

• They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver hard-working, business-critical applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, e.g. product, development, DBA, middleware, network

• Assist in the development of estimates for projects

• Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects

• Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans

• Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to collaborators (business, development)

• Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics

• Coordinate solving of infrastructure and application issues

• Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks

• Defect tracking and reporting

• Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner

• Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics

• Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems

• Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis

• Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities

• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 7 years of related experience

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)

• Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments

• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Team Quest, OMi, Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Splunk)

• Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms

• Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling

• Excellent analytical skills including:

• Data exploration, analysis and presentation using descriptive statistics and graphical techniques

• Time series analysis and forecasting

• Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling

• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools Team Quest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC

• Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, Load Runner etc.

• Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)

• Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system

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