Title: Performance Test Engineer
Location: Norristown, PA
Duration: Long term (2 years)
Interview Mode: Phone & In-person
We need Local Candidates only.
Targeted Responsibilities of New Performance Test Engineer:
• Work collaboratively with system administrators, project managers, quality assurance personnel, to effectively manage software development environment.
• Work with dedicated project team to design and execute server/hardware performance testing in windows environment.
• Develop and maintain repeatable and scalable performance test suites.
• Define application performance strategy.
• Plan, design, execute and maintain different types of performance tests including load, stress, endurance and capacity.
• Work with operations and capacity teams to gather production data to create workload models.
• Tester will develop automated test scenarios and environments to constantly test the application and system during use.
• Ability to analyze scalability and load against various server configurations.
• Ability to develop test plans and analyze system performance under various hardware configurations (RAM/CPU Cores, Disk Cache, Network, Storage).
• Result analysis and metrics reporting to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Characteristics and Qualifications:
This job requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with others. Resource should be comfortable to work under minimum supervision. Resource should be able to notice inefficiencies and should be well versed in technical upgrades.
Technical Skills and Abilities:
• Experience designing and developing automated performance tests from the ground up.
• Hands on experience with automated performance testing tools like HP LoadRunner, LoadUI and JMeter. JMeter is required and they are phasing out LoadRunner.
• Ability to setup complex test scenarios to model production workloads.
• Ability to establish and effectively report on system performance baselines.
• Ability to monitor and collect result data, analyze and pinpoint bottlenecks and provide solutions on fixing performance issues.
• Understanding of the TCP/IP stack and presentation layers.
• Database knowledge (Oracle); ability to write complex queries and understand data relationships.
• Solid understanding of NAS, CIFS, SMB.
Experience and Qualifications:
• HP Performance Testing Tools (LoadRunner, Performance Center).
• Diagnostic Tools: HP Diagnostics other Performance monitoring Tools.
• Slunk Reporting and Query.
• Tableau data analysis.
• Other Tools: JMeter, LoadUI, Galileo.
• Experience with application tuning in different hardware configurations.
• Experience with HP/Cisco server testing/tuning.
Education and/or Certifications:
• 5-10 years of technical experience with at least 5+ years of Performance Testing experience.
• 4 year degree, preferably in Computer Science.
• Knowledge of agile software development processes.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills in a technical environment.
• Good team player with the ability to handle multiple concurrent priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
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