Job Description :
Performance Testing Lead /Architect
Location: Chicago, IL (local resources only)

Description:

Overall operational and delivery lead for all performance testing activities
The role spans across multiple phases, projects and environments in parallel
Requires onshore/offshore coordination on a day to day basis
Play the role of a strategic & technical leader to drive Performance Engineering transformation
Should be effectively to manage resources for delivery of milestones
Review NFRs and design for performance
Coordinate and manage large scale projects for performance engineering includes intake, requirements analysis, estimation, planning, strategy, setup environments/tools, test data, execution, monitoring analysis and reporting for testing microservice based solutions hosted on AWS Cloud platforms
Participate in architecture reviews and offer recommendations for designing highly resilient, scalable and reliable solutions
Play a key role in defining and setting up quality gates to baseline and benchmark performance of applications/products, measure and report performance KPIs and metrics.
Design system and model the load/ volumetric for performance testing and capacity planning

Required Skills:

Must have JAVA, .NET, SAP and SQL & NO SQL performance tuning experience that include (garbage collection, heap management, JVM Configuration, ,V$ table, explain plan, query optimization etc.
This position requires superior technical and leadership skills.
Expert ability to identify performance issues within the J2EE,.net, Middleware, SQL, NO SQL Databases ,MQ and AWS Cloud platforms
Should have strong experience identifying bottlenecks across multiple layers of the system. The candidate will be charged with a hands-on approach in building, running and working on enterprise performance initiative driven by Performance engineering team.
Experience in baselining and benchmarking of applications/products for performance.
Hands-on experience in building enterprise level performance engineering strategies and delivery of large scale projects.
Excellent ability to partner with Architects, Developers, Systems Engineers and Database Administrators to collaboratively tune systems.
Review performance automation implementations and encourage sound design principles while remaining practical and milestone driven.
Thorough understanding and hands-on experience of performance testing and diagnostic tools such as HP LoadRunner, NewRelic, HP Diagnostics, Blazemeter, JMeter, Yourkit etc.
Expertise in code profiling and optimization tools
Expert ability to dissect large amounts of data from monitoring/diagnostic tools and identify potential issues for every releases.
Experience with Oracle SQL, NO SQL (Cassandra, Neptune, Dynamo etc database performance tuning
Ability to do capacity planning based on users, load and business forecasts -Workload Modelling
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate with Leadership/ stakeholders

Secondary Skills (Good to have):
Knowledge in managing environments, test data and service virtualization
Well versed with Devops , CI/CD pipelines and AWS Cloud fundamentals
Experience working in Agile SCRUM teams
             

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