Description :

- Support end to end performance testing for projects independently, using Agile methodologies.

- Assist in the development of estimates, resource requirements, and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects.

- Review business use cases, user stories, and other functional and non-functional requirements to identify key performance indicators.

- Review design documents, infrastructure implementations, and code to identify potential performance bottlenecks and defects.

- Prepare load simulators, monitoring tools, and other automation to sustainably test the products against specifications.

- Develop custom tools and load simulators and integrate them in CICD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket.

- Analyze full stack of the application (web server, application server, database, etc.), identify performance bottlenecks (at application and OS layers) and support performance tuning exercises.

- Participate in defect tracking and reporting.

- Build, publish, and support reusable components to automate repeatable, manual test activities.

Qualifications :

- Minimum of 5 years of related experience.

- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success :

- Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning).

- Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications.

- Experience working in Unix or Linux environments.

- Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools : Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest).

- Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms.

- Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling.

- Excellent analytical skills including :

a. Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques.

b. Time series analysis and forecasting.

c. 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 TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC.

- Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.

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

- Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system.

- Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML.

- Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle.

- Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc).

- Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool.

- Expert MS Office skills.

- Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills.

- Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum).

- Experience in the financial services industry is good to have.