Senior Performance Engineer

Job Position: Senior Performance Engineer
Location: Oakland, CA //onsite //hashtag#local only

Duration of project:6+month 



Job type: C2C/W2



Role Summary:
We are seeking a Performance Tester with 4+ years of experience in application performance testing


• 4+ years of experience working within SDLC/TDLC
• 4+ years of testing experience specifically within the Performance testing/Engineering discipline
• Experience with utility industry and with utility operations and ADMS in particular
• Solid understanding of Performance test process methodologies, approaches and tools
• Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as LoadRunner, LoadRunner Cloud, Jmeter, Neoload, or similar
• Solid understanding of web and mobile applications and implementations
• Strong in one of the coding languages: Java, python etc.
• Expertise in metrics gathering and developing dashboards and reports which clearly and concisely capture and communicate performance testing analysis / results
• Demonstrated competency with various tools including Defect Management Tools,
• Hands-on experience with Performance engineering and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, CloudWatch etc
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools SOAP UI, Postman etc.
• Experience with CI/CD and related tools and techniques; Jenkins/Dockers/Kubernetes an asset
• Has at least 2 years experience working in onsite-offshore model.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Directly support and execute day-to-day performance testing activities within QA and production regions, working with delivery teams (agile and waterfall) and other areas of IT (enterprise architects, solutions architects, development) to validate performance testing and non-functional requirements
• Utilize a variety of testing techniques which support the performance and non-functional testing activities, single user profiling, spike, stress, endurance, fail over etc
• Assess the risks associated with the development aspects of each solution/project and define a performance testing approach, making solution recommendations to development, architecture, infrastructure where possible