Title: Performance Tester Location: SAN DIEGO, CA Duration: 6+ month
sunil kumar
What are the top 5-10 responsibilities for this position? (Please be detailed as to what the candidate is expected to do or complete on a daily basis)
Responsible for planning and creating automated performance tests based on current client usage and predicted future usage, executing tests, and analyzing results to measure scalability, stability and reliability.
Responsible for developing tools for automation and load testing when there is no off-the-shelf tools available for a particular measurement.
Responsible for measuring application and environment performance, documenting issues and working with the development and implementation engineers to identify solutions.
Responsible for capturing the requirements of external client interfaces and identifying a method of simulation.
Responsible for capturing the requirements for production environment configuration.
Generate periodic reports showing current product load and performance against predicted load and target performance goals.
Assist in trouble shooting live client issues via issue duplication in the performance test environment and identification of root cause.
What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities? Ignite, Splunk, DCRUM, Dynatrace
what skills/attributes are a must have?
3+ years’ experience in Performance Engineering including benchmark testing, performance analysis and measurement of technically challenging systems.
1+ years of programming/scripting experience
Strong programming, troubleshooting and reasoning skills; the ability to debug and resolve difficult technical problems.
Strong knowledge of operating systems (Windows in particular)
Knowledge of C#, Java, SQL Server, Java Script and .NET Framework
What skills/attributes are nice to have?
Familiarity with SAAS Solutions and architecture
Exposure to iterative and incremental agile software development
