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