Role: Performance Engineer
Location: Oakland, CA(Hybrid)
Role Descriptions:
* 8+ years of experience working within SDLC/TDLC
* 6+ years of testing experience specifically within the Performance testing/Engineering discipline
* 2+ years of experience working in onsite-offshore model
* Experience with utility industry and with utility operations and ADMS in particular
* Solid understanding of Performance test process methodologies, approaches and tools
* Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as LoadRunner, LoadRunner Cloud, Jmeter, Neoload, or similar
* Solid understanding of web and mobile applications and implementations
* Key Responsibilities
* Independently own and deliver end-to-end performance testing including scripting, execution, analysis, and reporting
* Investigate and triage performance issues by identifying root causes through profiling, log analysis, and monitoring tools
* Required Skills
* Strong hands-on experience in LoadRunner — scripting, execution, configuration, analysis, and troubleshooting
* Good understanding of the architecture of applications they have tested
* Experience investigating and triaging performance issues end-to-end
* Hands-on experience with any APM tools — AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or equivalent
Roles & Responsibilities
* Directly support and execute day-to-day performance testing activities within QA and production regions, working with delivery teams (agile and waterfall) and other areas of IT (enterprise architects, solutions architects, development) to validate performance testing and non-functional requirements
* Utilize a variety of testing techniques which support the performance and non-functional testing activities, single user profiling, spike, stress, endurance, fail over etc
* Analyzes, recommend, and implement engineering suggestions to improve efficiencies and increase responsiveness of client project requirements, ensure technology is current and up to date with industry standards while maintaining established service level
* Assess the risks associated with the development aspects of each solution/project and define a performance testing approach, making solution recommendations to development, architecture, infrastructure where possible
* Should be comfortable working in onsite-offshore model.