Performance Test Engineer, Senior

ABS is seeking a Sr. Performance Test Engineerto provide Performance Test Engineering services to different customer facing applications. This position will be responsible for inclusive but not limited to Capturing applications’ current performance, Scripting, Result analysis to pinpoint bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements, develop performance baseline (SLA), Infrastructure monitoring, Thresholds setup, Alerting, and Azure cloud migration support. Our goal is to improve overall customer satisfaction.

Are you a talented communicator with passion for technical topics? Do you like to solve a variety of problems with and for your customers? Then this is the right challenge for you.

What You Will Do :

• Participate in software and system performance analysis, tuning, and demand / capacity planning for business critical, large scale, and high availability applications.
• Manage the availability, scalability, security, and performance of applications.
• Play a key role in infrastructure provisioning, system configuration, and deployments.
• Models’ technical requirements to evaluate performance impacts.
• Develop performance test scenarios and scripts by analyzing application and usage patterns.
• Run scripts and analyze performance test results to evaluate impact on production infrastructure and make comparisons with previous release benchmarks.
• Review test executions to confirm that performance tests are valid and operating as expected.
• Identify issues in the test execution, test data, and performance environment that are impacting tests.
• Perform in-depth technical root cause analysis for high priority issues spanning all technology layers / stacks and engage developers, product, architecture teams as appropriate for resolution.
• Provide tuning recommendations to resolve complex performance issues (response time, throughput, Heap, CPU and garbage collection, etc.).
• Analyze performance issues by looking at heap dumps, thread dumps, CPU, and memory usage metrics.
• Provide tuning recommendations for heap, CPU, thread related application issues.
• Solve problems, analyze performance issues, and provide solutions.
• Works with cross functional project teams to define performance metrics and acceptance criteria.
• Mentors less experienced performance Test Engineers.

What You Will Need :

Education & Experience :

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

Reporting Relationships :

Will report to Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance or Director.

Working Conditions :

The work environment will primarily be an air-conditioned office setting requiring the employee to sit for prolonged periods while concentrating on a computer screen.