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Performance Engineer – 6 Month Contract
Location
United States
Posted
149 days ago
Salary
$45 - $65 / hour
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudGraph QLJava ScriptKubernetesMicroservicesType Script
Job Description
• Collaborate with the Engineering, Quality Engineering, Support, Product Management and DevOps teams to review and document requirements, execute performance tests and troubleshoot/resolve (blocking) issues.
• Design and execute different performance test strategies depending on unique project purposes and requirements
• Analyze test results and establish reliable mathematic models for response time, throughput, SLA and other application performance metrics
• Grow and evolve our performance tooling and testing processes to ensure tests are customer-like and representative of real-world scenarios
• Identify existing bottlenecks in the hardware and software platform, application code stack, network and disk IO
• Measure and document reliable predictions on potential bottlenecks as computing platforms and workloads change
• Communicate test results and analysis to Engineering, Operations, PM, Network and DB teams
• Develop unique performance testing tools, analysis methodologies, as well as capacity planning
• Support the Engineering teams with tools and frameworks to enhance system performance, scalability and stability.
• Help and guide other QE teams to develop their own performance test plans and scripts
• Co-ordinate multiple performance test projects within the limited test resources; provide expert opinions in understanding and analyzing their test results
• Identify gaps, issues, or other areas of concern, and proactively define, propose, and enact process and workflow improvements to mitigate such issues.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in performance engineering.
- 3+ years of experience with code first performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Gatling) and performance analysis via DataDog or similar platforms.
- Advanced coding skills in Javascript or Typescript
- Extensive experience working with microservices architecture, preferably with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in testing APIs, Web applications is a must
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Proven ability to perform profile/baseline, load and stress testing, soak, spike testing etc.
- Proven ability to drill down into results and complete deep dive root cause analysis
- Strong technical communication and documentation skills
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