SAP Performance Engineer

$95,000 - $150,000/Yr

Tata Consultancy Services - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The SAP Performance Engineer role focuses on defining, developing, and applying performance and scalability benchmarks for SAP applications. The position involves working in cross-functional teams to enhance system performance, conducting performance tests, and participating in architecture reviews to ensure quality in design. The engineer will utilize various profiling tools and performance testing tools to identify bottlenecks and provide root cause analysis, ultimately improving the overall efficiency of SAP systems.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.
• Work in cross-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
• Work efficiently with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide root cause analysis.
• Devise and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance impacts of system changes.
• Plan and execute performance tests using an automated testing environment and conduct analysis of results.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts and own quality perspectives for the design.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software testing experience.
• Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
• Experience working on Brown or Green field S/4 HANA implementations.
• Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
• Experience in performance testing tools - LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, Postman.
• Experience in data analysis and visualization, end-to-end performance, and root cause analysis.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture, and RESTful APIs.
• Strong knowledge of performance-tuning SQL queries.
• Extensive hands-on experience with JVM tuning techniques.
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.

Nice-to-haves

• Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
• Experience in Cloud-based platforms like AWS and GCP.
• Expertise in performance assessment and optimization of complex applications built on the SAP BTP platform.
• Strong understanding of BTP components like API management (APIM), SAP Integration Suit, Conversational AI (CAI), Data Intelligence (SAP DI), and AWS storage services.
• Skilled in BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration(SDI).
• Strong experience in performance testing and analysis of SCP iOS SDK mobile apps.
• Proficient in application & DB performance monitoring in SAP BTP using Kibana, HANA DB cockpit and SAP BTP cockpit.
• Understanding of basic Machine Learning algorithms & principles.
• Strong understanding of relational database systems as well as in-memory databases.
• Understanding of Algorithms and O-Notation.
• Code management using Git.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $95,000-150,000 a year