QA Engineer III (Performance Engineer) (Remote)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : QA Engineer III (Performance Engineer) (Remote)

Location : Cherry Hill, NJ

Duration : 12 Months

Overview :

The QA Engineer III (in Performance Engineering) is an integral part of the Performance Engineering centralized team working in a dynamic fast paced, agile environment and improving application performance and resolving performance issues across the enterprise. S / he should have specialist level skills with performance engineering and tuning as well as performance testing i.e. writing LoadRunner and JMeter scripts for web-based applications as well as (SOAP / RESTful) services. He should be able to jump onto any performance engineering projects upon joining. The performance engineer will be responsible to identify system bottle necks by testing, code review, analyzing server logs, dump analysis, also fixing performance issues at code, infrastructure, design, configuration levels, improving performance by benchmarking to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.

Essential Job Functions :

• Work with key business, technical teams and stakeholders to understand & define non-functional requirements, determine performance test scenarios, system components under test, scaling factor, SLOs, monitoring tools.
• Review application design with application architects and identify faults at design level during reviews. Identify triggering Point for load testing to ensure right system components are loaded during test executions.
• Develop Performance test strategy and plan.
• Workload & performance characterization by monitoring production systems.
• Identify test data needs, and 3rd party dependencies. Able to mock 3rd party responses when needed.
• Designing test scripts, and test scenarios using Load Runner Enterprise, LoadRunner Professional and JMeter as per industry standards and best practices, which accurately depict the realistic user behavior and load levels & patterns.
• Execute various load models to identify bottlenecks in lower environment by monitoring all systems and components involved.
• Analyze load test results, logs, performance metrics, traces, dumps and able to identify the root cause of any performance issue or slowness at code, infra, config, design or any other level including 3rd party (external) systems; by reviewing each area.
• Resolve performance issues and improve performance.
• Work with Performance Manager to enhance performance engineering standards, technologies and approaches; including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and using tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Work closely with cross-functional organizations, project teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases and deliver high quality products.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to other performance engineers as needed.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance. Able to work in off business hours (early mornings and late evenings) to conduct tests in lower environments to reduce the impact on other users and get accurate workloads and performance metrices.

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