Senior Performance Engineer Job in Aera Technology

Responsibilities

• Participate in designing the performance framework and writing performance tests following the best practice and coding standards for various navigation flows
• Accountable for creating, executing and reporting performance test execution summary
• Develop relevant and representative workloads to benchmark to execute, analyze, profile, and verify the performance for cloud application architectures and features, including database design, API, enterprise level technologies
• Reproduce and resolve critical performance issues that customers face in the internal test environment and incorporate them into workloads
• Utilize various scripting languages, Java, and standardized tools to mimic real world production and generate load against internal test environment
• Design and run overhead, scalability, stress tests using standardized industry tools and frameworks to identify hot spots, bottlenecks, and breaking points in the software platform
• Identify areas of performance problems, report observations to stakeholders and make appropriate recommendations. Troubleshoot and isolate performance issues in different features and the architecture
• Develop custom tools as needed for automated data generation, test execution, results analysis, etc.
• Contribute to establishing reusable/repeatable processes for performance testing as per the industry s best practices for the IT / QA organization
• Propose resolutions for software/hardware changes and upgrades to address identified bottlenecks and support higher throughput

About You

• You have at least 7+ years of proven experience in Performance Engineering/Testing and tuning web based enterprise applications
• You have excellent knowledge on performance concepts & load/soak/scalability/stress testing
• You have experience with API level performance testing and UI performance testing to improve faster load of pages
• Experience in planning, estimating, designing, executing and analysing performance tests
• You should be able to implement the overall performance test strategy and lead best practices and standards set in the team
• Bring experience working in an agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi skilled team in a technically demanding function
• You have experience in performance tests on the web as well as mobile devices and performance test automation with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
• You have experience in diagnosing performance issues & bottlenecks
• You bring strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools (such as JMeter, LoadRunner/Performance Center), and APM tools (such as AppDynamics, dynaTrace, New Relic, Splunk)
• You have experience in performance testing and tuning microservices/ APIs running on cloud based PaaS platforms, either on-premise or within a managed service (eg. AWS)
• Ability to collaborate cross functionally - you enjoy working closely with others, and are comfortable showing off your work
• You bring positive energy and enthusiasm - cultural fit is a big deal for us, we re looking for smart people who are excited about solving big problems and are self-motivated to get things done