Performance Lead

Role: Performance Lead

Contract position

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Job Description

Bachelor's degree and experience in software development and technical quality assurance.

Experience working with Business analysts and Solution Architects to Design, test and implement Performance coverage to deliver a performance, scalable, operable and resilient solution.

Analyze and design performance test scenarios based on load patterns on production system, Production application and network layout.

Experience in Performance analysis, debugging activities, diagnostics

Experience in performance test results, identifying potential bottlenecks and recommend appropriate tuning of applications.

Experience in creating comprehensive test reports and findings to management, development, and infrastructure teams to support decision-making about the deployment of applications in the production system.

Recommend organization wide short term and long term strategies in view of performance requirements

Demonstrated knowledge of TCP/IP, JVM tuning, SQLs, load modeling, UNIX command line utilities and performance monitoring of Linux and windows based system.

Familiarity with HP Performance Center, Load Runner, JProfiler, JMX Console, Heap Dump Analysis, Thread dump analysis, Netstorm, Net Ocean, SQL Developer, SQL server management studio, SQL Profiler, PerfMon, Omniture, App Dynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Foglight, Graphite, UEM, jsp, json, xml, html (web technologies), IBM MQ, UFT - Quick Test Professional.

Experience in Load generation /measurement tools (e.g. Performance Center, Load Runner, JMeter) and methodologies

Experience in using monitoring tools (e.g. DynaTrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Foglight, Graphite) & the ability to identify performance issues within the J2EE architecture.

Experience working on more than one product delivery cycle simultaneously.

At least 8 years of experience as a tester in software development.

Experience developing performance design specifications, test plans, and protocols.

Experience identifying the relationship of performance bugs to software code

Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.

Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.

Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.

Experience evaluating the compatibility of programs with existing communications hardware and software.

Well-versed with the Performance Engineering Lifecycle. In-depth knowledge of industry practice.

Job Responsibilities

• • Able to coordinate with different teams
  • Should have experience in NFR gathering, Workload Modelling, Performance Analysis, Tuning, and providing recommendations for large scale distributed systems
  • Must have experience working with Azure Tech stack
  • Should have experience working with asynchronous messaging systems like , Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub
  • Nice to have experience in Databricks, Azure Data factory & Azure Data Lake
  • Experience in Kubernetes based microservices
  • Should have experience in testing NoSQL databases
  • Able to prepare Performance Strategy for applications deployed in the cloud tech stack
  • Analyze and design performance test scenarios based on load patterns on a production system, Production application, and network layout.
  • Understand non-functional requirements (NFR), Performance Requirements such as volume metrics, throughput, and response times for large scale applications
  • Prepare and present overall Test Plan/Strategy for performance based on non-functional requirements
  • Plan, design, and conduct performance testing of applications in order to assess server performance, the effect of user behavior, and scalability of applications under load.
  • Execute and coordinate monitoring of performance tests at network, system, application, and database layers.
  • Work on Capacity Management and planning in coordination with the architecture, infrastructure and network team.

Work closely with QA team to help, grow and improve the test processes and skill sets
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