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Performance Engineer

Job Description:

Performance Engineer Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking a Performance Engineer for an opportunity in the St. Louis, MO area. The Performance Engineer should be an experienced professional who is passionate about innovative technology – specifically performance testing, performance profiling, web/mobile and database performance real-time monitoring and tools. He or she will need to be hands-on and eager to demonstrate a clear path of services adoption to your partners with demos, presentations, and prototypes. This position will be part of Performance Engineering team and is responsible for ensuring that performance (end-to-end response times, throughput, transactions per second, capacity, etc.) of the client’s applications meet or exceed customer expectations.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate requirements review and performance testing activities to ensure the quality and functionality of our client’s assigned developed systems
  • Document performance test strategy and test plans covering environment, schedule, test data set up, testing techniques, and key SLA metrics keeping end-user requirements and customer experience in mind
  • Conduct manual and automated performance testing, handle performance defects, and fix performance issues covering platform hardware analysis, scalability, and application profiling (JVM, databases, etc.)
  • Partner with operations, product, and development teams to develop real-time performance dashboards and provide periodic updates on application performance to partners
  • Define and implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions including Proof of Concepts and Tools evaluation and selection – specifically in emerging technologies (web, mobile)
  • Document problems, monitor resolutions and retain documentation necessary to share knowledge with performance engineering and application teams
  • Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members. This is not a management position; however, this position is expected to provide strong leadership to junior members of the staff
  • Implement consistent company and department testing standards and procedures
  • Demonstrate a clear path of services adoption to partners through demos, presentations, and prototypes

Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of architecture stacks and performance patterns – in addition to performance tools and performance testing – to understand business requirements and help architect/fine-tune systems for better performance early in the development life cycle
  • Ability to define performance test plans and roadmaps, as well as partner with delivery teams to implement the strategy
  • Prior experience installing, configuring and using performance testing tools (i.e. LoadRunner and JMeter) and performance monitoring tools (i.e. Dynatrace and Splunk)
  • Experience in scripting and performance testing web/mobile applications and web services (SOAP and REST APIs)
  • Ability to monitor and tune Java virtual machine and app servers; articulate JVM GC process and its logs; collect performance metrics from *nix and Windows
  • Expertise in Agile and waterfall testing methodologies and tools such as Jira, Rally, Rational Team Concert, Quality Center, etc.
  • Experience in building the right performance environment data sets and use of data virtualization tools where required
  • Self-motivated individual that crafts solutions and continuously learns new applications and technologies
  • Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills with phenomenal attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication and proven leadership skills with the ability to lead multiple test paths simultaneously
  • Performance tuning experience with RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, etc.) is a huge plus
  • Application development expertise, preferably in Java and test tools (i.e. Junit and JBehave)
  • Exposure to test and behavior-driven development (TDD and BDD) is preferred

About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the eighth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” and is now the 15th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 26 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients’ technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com.

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