Job description

Job Title: Performance Engineer

Location: Birmingham, AL (Onsite)

Primary Responsibilities

· Collaborates with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks throughout the entire application stack

· Recommends improvements to the architecture and deployment of applications under test

· Emphasizes methods of integrating testing best practices into the application development lifecycle to reduce friction, identify potential problems early, and improve cross-collaboration

· Participates in the Performance Engineering Community of Practice which is a technical platform that enables knowledge sharing and cross-collaboration, drive standardization and innovation

· Collaborates with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches

· Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure

· Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance

· Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios

· Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases

· Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution

· Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings

· Provides summaries and assessments of the application’s performance, emphasizing trends over time

· Conducts “deep dive” analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified

· Collaborates with AD teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner.

· Participate in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily standup meetings for development teams.

· Provides leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers

· Leads or participates in cross-organizational initiatives

Requirements

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

· Five (5) years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures onprem and cloud

· One (1) year of experience in software application development or test automation

Preferences

· Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices

· Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL), C, C++, C# or Java programming, and automated testing methodologies

· Familiar with container technologies

· Understanding of On Prem and Cloud

· Familiar with open source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk

· Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)

· Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning

· Experience with cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)

Skills and Competencies

· Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes

· Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner

· Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk

· Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, Performance Center

· Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, ntier, MQ, CICS IMainframe))

· Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Effective communication and leadership skills

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: $81,343.78 - $189,213.58 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay
• Commission pay
• Signing bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Birmingham, AL: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location

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