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Georgia IT Inc

Performance Engineer- Austin TX

Georgia IT Inc, Texas City

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Position: Performance Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: Contract
Rate: DOE
  • Strong Scripting skills in Performance testing tools like JMeter/Load runner.
  • Strong knowledge of HTTP and other Web Protocols. Ability to script tests, by getting into the protocol details
  • Proficient in API/UI performance testing with JMeter/Blazemeter/Grafan
  • Sound knowledge in API virtualization concepts
  • Proficient in On prem vs Cloud( AWS) performance testing strategies
  • Hands on experience in APM tools like Dynatrace/NewRelic/AppDynamics
  • Good knowledge in analyzing performance logs using ELK/Splunk
  • Strong analyzing/data mining skills using SQL.
  • Experience on Kafka/messaging performance testing will be an added advantage.
  • Strong in performance engineering concepts and CPU/Memory bottleneck analysis.
  • Experience with Financial Services industry external facing /Internal Applications and microservices

Responsibilities:
  • Identify Performance testing Objectives/Strategy and define non-functional requirements by working with key business and IT users and project stakeholders.
  • Understand application usage models from relevant stakeholders and analyzing existing production load patterns.
  • Identify and recommend Performance testing tools to be used to meet client requirements as they grow the number of concurrent users.
  • Participate in design and architecture reviews.
  • Develop required infrastructure including performance simulators, test bench components, analysis tools and capacity planning.
  • Derive workload models appropriately scaled to the performance test environment.
  • Work with multiple product teams to design, create, execute, and report on capacity, scalability, stability, and stress tests.
  • Create Performance Test scripts that are robust and maintainable.
  • Conduct various performance tests and schedule timeframes with key business and IT resources to monitor, witness and support the performance test analysis.
  • nalyze test results and publish meaningful, pragmatic performance test metrics and results (including defects) for action by the application and infrastructure owners for remediation and repair.
  • Partner with technical teams to facilitate troubleshooting of performance issues.
  • Identify and receive approval for Performance Test conditions by working with key project stakeholders.