Performance Tester

Performance Tester

Years of Experience: 3 years

Education Requirements:A Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required. 

Program Description:  Create an end-to-end management perspective to ensure proper compliance and oversight of GI Bill programs, and the use of data and business intelligence to monitor and measure school and student outcomes.

Responsibilities:

The Performance Tester will:

·        Participate in performance test planning, execution, and validation, capacity planning, and application performance management.

·        Review the performance testing strategy, audit the existing NFR’s, and identify gaps in performance testing execution approach

Requirements

Required Skills:

·        Understanding of performance best practices (e.g., JVM settings,  Network Variability impact on Performance of distributed systems).

·        Proficiency in JMeter, Neoload, Loadrunner, API’s performance tuning, AWS / cloud ecosystem, microservices platform performance analysis.

·        Leveraging profiling tools (i.e. Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Splunk) to analyze and define performance characteristics of an application, recommend enhancements, and trouble shoot bottlenecks.

·        Performance troubleshooting (heap dump & thread dump analysis).

·        Application and infrastructure scaling analysis and recommendations.

Soft Skills:

·        Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

·        Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

·        Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

·        Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

·        Problem Solving: Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

·        Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.

Benefits

SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off