Senior Performance Engineer (10-15 yrs)

About the job :

Responsibilities :

Essential Job Functions :

- Lead the performance testing program, collaborating closely with agile teams and architects to build and maintain framework(s) to benchmark application performance across all layers of the application stack

- Apply advanced performance testing methodologies and best practices.

- Help setup production performance analysis framework and build-out strategies to load test the system

- Analyze test results, configure analysis graphs, and compile comprehensive performance test reports.

- Diagnose root causes of performance issues and implement optimization solutions to enhance application performance.

Qualifications :

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in performance testing, preferably in a high-transaction SaaS environment, with proficiency in tools such as JMeter or Load Runner.

- Expertise in handling HTTP/HTML, web services, and asynchronous calls.

- Good-to-great understanding of memory and CPU utilization, throughput, latency, etc.

- Experience with monitoring and analysis tools like New Relic, Grafana, Sumo Logic, and AppDynamics.

- Experience with profiling and heap analysis tools

- Proficiency in at least one programming language.

- Experience with databases including MS SQL Server and MySQL

- Familiarity with AWS a plus

- Self-motivated, able to learn and research issues independently with a keen eye to details

- Must be passionate about wanting to make the software performance better i.e. wont-quit-till-I-figure-out the-root-cause mentality

- Good analytical and problem-solving skills combined with technical writing and communication skills

- Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM SDLC strongly preferred

Core Skills :

- Performance Testing and Engineering : Load testing tools (JMeter, Load Runner, etc.)

- APM and Logging (Grafana, Sumo Logic, New Relic, etc.)

- Cloud infrastructure and monitoring (AWS, CloudWatch, etc.)