Technical Engineer II - Performance Engineer
About The Position
CTG is seeking to fill a Technical Engineer II - Performance Engineer opening for our client. This role involves designing, developing, executing, and maintaining performance tests for a variety of applications including web, API, mobile, cloud, and distributed systems. The engineer will be responsible for creating performance test scripts, developing workload models, test plans, benchmarks, and reports. A key aspect of the role is analyzing results using Dynatrace/APM tools to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. The position also supports various types of testing such as load, stress, scalability, capacity planning, and resiliency testing. Collaboration with development, architecture, database, infrastructure, and DevOps teams is crucial for resolving performance issues. The role promotes a shift-left performance testing approach and integration into Agile/DevOps and CI/CD processes, along with providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software testing, performance testing, or performance engineering experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) or LoadRunner Enterprise.
- Required experience with LoadRunner/VuGen, JMeter, C programming, performance testing, workload modeling, and performance analysis.
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, SDLC, web applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.
Nice To Haves
- BlazeMeter, Azure Load Testing, AWS, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or New Relic.
- CI/CD performance testing, cloud performance engineering, Kubernetes, database performance, and mobile performance testing.
- Financial services or regulated industry experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance tests for web, API, mobile, cloud, and distributed applications.
- Create performance test scripts using LoadRunner Cloud, LoadRunner Professional/VuGen, JMeter, and C.
- Develop workload models, test plans, performance benchmarks, and reports.
- Analyze results using Dynatrace/APM tools to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
- Support performance engineering, load testing, stress testing, scalability testing, capacity planning, and resiliency testing.
- Collaborate with development, architecture, database, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to resolve performance issues.
- Promote shift-left performance testing and integrate performance testing into Agile/DevOps and CI/CD processes.
- Provide technical guidance and mentor junior engineers.
- Serve as a technical performance engineering resource supporting enterprise applications and platforms.
- Identify performance risks and provide data-driven recommendations to improve scalability, reliability, and application performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
