Performance Test Specialist

Senior/Performance test specialist 

 POSITION OVERVIEW 

The Senior/Performance test specialist will be responsible for driving existing production performance inefficiencies to resolution, as well as working closely with both product and engineering teams to ensure new products meet the performance demands of our customers. Analysis, design and implementation of tests, providing data supporting design assumptions, and verifying the requirements have been met, will also be an important part of your role. In addition, your contribution to a performance engineering culture, ensuring engineers are building in performance during the design phase is key to success.  

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES 

Deep-dive production performance metrics, as well as performance test analysis, to identify system bottlenecks, define system capacity, and compare benchmarks  

Work with the CloudOps team to understand / clarify performance related issues / conditions, then work with SME's to identify solutions to address issues  

Contribute to the delivery of quality product by engineering teams, as it relates to performance, stability, scalability, and reliability  

Advise engineering teams on scalability and performance strategies  

Partner with database engineer to design/build/execute performance tests  

Develop automated performance execution and monitoring solutions / tools 

Gather detailed performance requirements and measurements to be validated  

Drive the analysis, design, and development of a performance initiatives  

Be a key contributor in developing a data-driven performance test suite 

Assist in maintaining and provisioning performance test environments, including populating performance environments with appropriate test data and code versions  

Understand the performance risk assessment and analysis of product deliverable to clearly define performance goals and develop a comprehensive test strategy  

Plan, scope, schedule and implement performance testing initiatives 

Consult with development subject matter experts (SMEs) to define the metrics of interest and make testing efforts relevant  

Advocate of high-quality software performance and help to communicate the big picture and solutions/recommendations in an inspiring way to peers and cross functional groups  

ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT 

Reports to Team Lead Quality Engineering 

QUALIFICATIONS  

Required: 

Hands on experience in Performance Engineering 

Technical Competencies 

Required: 

Expert level experience in monitoring tools (New Relic,AppDynamics, SQL Server Monitor, Dynatrace …)  

Strong experience with programming and scripting languages (Java, Python, R…)  

Strong experience in JMeter, LoadRunner  

Knowledge of SQL with the ability to create SQL performance sets and analyze results  

Understand systems environments like shared resources, components and services, CPU, memory, storage, network, etc.  

Ability to analyze and identify potential performance bottlenecks  

Ability to interpret and draw system diagrams 

Experience working with containers, cloud, virtualization, and configuration management  

Understanding of Azure and/or AWS cloud concepts and performance 

Firm understanding of software engineering design patterns and anti-patterns  

Preferred: 

Algorithm Design in an asset 

Knowledge of statistics 

Experience 

Required: 

8 plus years of experience in Software development with focus on Performance engineering & testing in Continuous Integration, Continuous testing environment 

Education 

Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field (or equivalent work experience) 

Master's Degree