Role: Performance Test Engineer
Location: Columbia SC / Reston, VA
Duration: 12+ Months
Your future duties and responsibilities
As a Performance Test Engineer, you will act as a key participant in application analysis, test strategy development, test execution, defect tracking, and reporting.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- 5+ yrs of IT Industry experience
- 5+ years of Performance testing (Load/Latency/High Availability)
- Experience in JMeter is a must and should be at least intermediate level.
- Experience using tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk is needed.
- Candidate should be familiar with Garbage collection, JVM thread and Head Dump Analysis.
- Candidate should be familiar with AWS environment, have ability to review Server Side metrics and Cloud watch tools.
- Candidate should be able to answer some Basic Java programing questions, should be able to work with editors such as Eclipse, Intellij etc and understand Java code
- Experience working in Agile environment, preferably SAFe
- Performance monitoring, tuning and analysis experience
- Understands a broad spectrum of technology in order to provide part or all of a detailed technical design to meet customer requirements.
- Excellent decision-making skills, should be able to lead the performance engineering vision for the program
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Superior time management and work organization
- Strong verbal and oral communication
- Work as a team in a fast paced agile environment
- Passion for continuous improvement and learning