Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Performance Testing Engineer with a proven track record in performance testing of large, complex projects in a web-based microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in performance testing, with a minimum of 2 years in a lead role that requires minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:

1. Performance Testing Leadership:
   • Plan and lead performance testing activities, including estimation, design, development, execution, and preparation of large datasets for distributed and high-throughput performance testing.
   • Communicate effectively with the development team and key stakeholders to clearly identify performance testing requirements.
   • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the performance testing team.
2. Analysis and Reporting:
   • Analyze test results and communicate identified performance bottlenecks to the development team.
   • Provide actionable recommendations for correcting performance issues.
   • Conduct walkthroughs of test summary reports with stakeholders.
3. Risk Management:
   • Identify and communicate risks associated with performance testing to the development team.
   • Review technical debt and provide solutions for performance enhancements.
4. Technical Skills:
   • Solid hands-on experience in performance testing Java applications using JMeter in an AWS environment.
   • Experience with container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
   • Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
   • Strong experience with Java programming language and scripting languages (Groovy, Javascript).
   • Familiarity with version control systems (GitHub, SVN), issue tracking tools (JIRA, X-Ray), and workload model building.
5. Database and Monitoring Knowledge:
   • Working knowledge of relational (SQL) and nonrelational (NoSQL) databases.
   • Experience with monitoring dashboards (e.g., Grafana) and time-series databases (InfluxDB, Prometheus, AWS Timestream).
6. Web Architecture Understanding:
   • Understanding of common subsystems in web architecture, including in-memory databases, load balancers, reverse proxies, app servers, web servers, DNS, and web protocols.
   • Deep understanding of Java internals (threads, exceptions, JVM performance tuning, GC mechanisms, heap dumps).
7. Personal/Soft Skills:
   • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
   • Ability to conduct presentations and walkthroughs with systems and business personnel.
   • Effective collaboration in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, and dynamic environment.
   • Detail-oriented and well-organized.
8. Additional Skills (Preferred):
   • Working experience in an AGILE, SCRUM environment.
   • Experience with AI/ML in performance testing.
9. Education Requirement:
   • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or Information Technology, or a related field.
10. Self-Assessment:
    • Each candidate must provide a self-assessment of critical and high-level skills required for this position.