Performance Test Engineer – HIRING ASAP

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 1 week in Galway, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €375 - €400 per day
 
Summary:
 
We are currently seeking a Performance Test Engineer to work on providing performance testing services across a diverse set of applications, technologies, and teams as part of the Enterprise Technology Software Engineering Domain.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and support the integration and delivery of performance testing in a CI/CD context working with teams in the US, India, and Ireland.  
We are seeking a Principal Performance Engineer with a passion for Performance testing. We are interested in someone who is enthusiastic about their craft; enjoys continuous learning and has the drive to implement change.

Skills:

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
• 10+ Years Performance Testing Experience required.
• Proficiency & practical experience using tools like:
  • DB: TOAD, IntelliJ, OEM, AWR reports
  • Profiling: JProfiler, Dynatrace
  • Network: Wireshark
  • Perf Loading: JMeter, LoadRunner
  • CI: Jenkins
  • Source control: GitHub.
• Strong Programming experience in at least two of the following: Groovy, Java, SQL, & Bash
• AWS Experience (on services like EC2, EKS, ASG, ALB, EBS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager) desirable.
• Experience with Database Tuning and knowledge of SQL profiling, Contention/Locking analysis, Bottleneck analysis etc.
• Experience with JVM Tuning: GC & Heap analysis, understanding of different GC collection methods.
• Experience using Monitoring and Diagnostic tools such as Splunk and Datadog
• Experience working with mocking frameworks like Wiremock
• Ability to work on Enterprise Systems leveraging messaging technologies like
• Excellent understanding of Systems Architecture, web technologies, Oracle RDBMS, & Linux Operating Systems

 

• Experience executing performance tests in an Agile environment (Kanban, Scrum)
• Able to Design and execute automated performance tests using Jenkins to support Continuous integration.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability through self-directed task management on project delivery work and backlog items based on priority.
• Demonstrate initiative to evaluate and recommend new tools and processes aligned to performance testing strategic objectives.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities 

• Help teams to embed integrated performance testing to support continuous integration and ensure early feedback in the development lifecycle.
• Deliver Application based Performance testing ensuring scope is appropriately documented, executed, monitored and performance issues effectively remediated.
• Continuously develop skills.
• Challenge the status quo ensuring continuous improvement of the Performance testing shared service.
• Maintaining status of projects, initiates discussions with stakeholders or external groups to resolve issues, works directly with the user community for project definition.
• Identifying and supporting the implementation of Process Improvements