Job Description

We are looking for a talented PERFORMANCE TEST ENGINEER for our award-winning Information Risk Management products. You will be responsible for designing performance test architecture, test plans, executing performance tests and building performance benchmark for cloud and on-premises applications. Join a rapidly growing company that delivers solutions for an increasingly critical component of information technology. 

Responsibilities

• Design performance test architecture, strategy and test plans for cloud and on-premises applications.
• Build performance test workload models that can simulate load scenarios.
• Build and maintain a scalable, portable and configurable test scripts.
• Execute load, stress, volume, endurance, spike, break point, and concurrent testing.
• Execute performance compatibility testing on various cloud and on-premise platforms.
• Analyze performance matrices such as response time, throughput, resource utilization and error rates.
• Compare system performance with varying levels of physical resources (Memory, CPU, Disk, Network, etc.).
• Build performance benchmark for component and application levels of systems.
• Deliver various end-user performance test reports.
• Collaborate with Engineering team to develop system capacity planning guidelines based on the performance data.
• Conduct performance profiling across the entire software stack to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Engineering team to address identified issues and optimize performance of the products.

Job Requirements

 Requirements

•  A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
•  Proven experience (min. 5 years) in performance testing or engineering of enterprise software applications.
•  Strong understanding of system architecture, including databases, networks, servers and cloud infrastructure.
•  Good understanding of the software stack from the application down to the OS and CPU levels.
•  Ability to assess performance testing requirements and prerequisites.
•  Experience designing test plans that accurately simulate real-world usage patterns, including various types of performance testing such as load, stress, volume, endurance, spike, break point, and concurrent testing.
•  Strong scripting abilities to build and automate performance tests.
•  Experience in performance testing of web applications, APIs and database.
•  Good understanding of industry-leading performance test tools such as JMeter and HP LoadRunner. 
•  Experience building performance benchmarks and workloads, performance analysis.
•  Expertise in application performance monitoring and profiling tools to identify bottlenecks.
•  Strong analytical skills to interpret test results, and suggest optimizations.
•  Keep up-to-date with the latest trends, tools and best practices in performance testing and engineering.
•  Strong teamwork skills, a self-learning mindset, effective communication abilities, and a can-do attitude.

Skills