Lead QA Performance Engineer (Project Hire)

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. The Disney Experiences Technology team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience app and Hey, Disney!

We seek an experienced Lead QA Performance Engineer who will join a Performance Engineering team. Primary responsibilities include leading performance testing and analysis of critical services, troubleshooting performance issues with Cloud services and applications, recommending accurate Cloud scaling parameters for services in Load and Production, environments and coordinating performance testing projects, forecasting work for self and testing personnel, and being responsible for scripting and performance testing personnel.

This position works closely with various business engineering and production teams to review requirements, develop performance testing estimates and test plans, and provide an excellent customer quality support that is in Disney's DNA! The role requires someone who is technical, proactive, hard-working, constructive, and highly motivated.

This is an 18-month Project Hire role through February 2027.

Your responsibilities :

Responsible for ramping up new performance testing projects in close partnership with business partners and being able to prioritize work, build a solid plan, and completing on time to support the project launch dates

Review complex architecture diagrams and application user documentation so you can build estimates for amount of work and build a testing plan

Lead the creation of the breakdown of project tasks to meet project objectives

Responsible for communicating project status to project manager, Directors or above

Responsible for capacity management / scaling of our cloud services to meet demands during launches

Accountable for / instructing other performance engineers how to create breakdowns of tasks

Accountable for / guiding other performance engineers how to complete tasks on time

Responsible to help unblock self and bring up issues / blockers to the right leader if necessary

Responsible for sharing their work / experiences, and successes with the team

Experience and skills :

Minimum of 7 years of related work experience

Excellent communication and relationship skills, and be able to articulate sophisticated technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff

Communicate clearly in high pressure situations to all levels of stakeholders

Represent our organization in incidents that involve other business units

Experience performance testing complex service architectures including related services, caches, and databases

Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical hands-on experience in :

Cloud Infrastructure (experienced) Public Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, GCP

AWS Cloud & Containerization : Fargate, ECS, Lambdas, Api Gateways, EC2, S3, ALB / ELB, Elasticache, VPC, IAM, EKS, Docker

Performance Engineering Fundamentals (expert)

JMeter scripting (expert)

Code Profiling (expert)

APM tools (expert) - Cloudwatch, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Wily, JConsole, GC Analyzer

Test Data Management (expert)

Chaos Testing (experienced)

Agile Project Management (experienced)

Java fundamentals (intermediate)

Languages - Java, JMeter

Database fundamentals (intermediate) - MySQL / MariaDB, Aurora, MongoDB, Dynamo DB

Caching Technologies (intermediate) - Redis

Docker / Containerization (understanding)

Required education :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and / or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in CA is $138,900.00-$186,200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job ID : 10128390

Location : Glendale,California

Job Posting Company : Disney Experiences

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