SAP Performance Engineer

Overview

On Site
$80,000 - $140,000
Full Time

Skills

"SAP Performance Testing" AND "Programming & API/Architecture Understanding" AND "Performance Testing Tools" AND "Database - SQL" AND "Observability & APM Tools" AND "System Diagnostics & Observability"

Job Details

Job Summary

For this role, we are looking for passionate performance engineers with excellent technical and communication skills. This role provides opportunities to work on Performance testing of various software applications and technologies in many business segments. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong programming and communication skills.


As a Performance Engineer, the individual will need to work with development engineers and functional analysts, understand new cutting-edge software, and identify performance tuning opportunities. The individual will work on emerging technologies like BTP as they design and conduct performance tests. The individual should have in-depth knowledge and experience of performance testing, troubleshooting and analysis.

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 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.

Must have/required experience:

  • Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software testing experience.
  • Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
  • 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, AppDynamics.
  • Efficiently work with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.

Following experience is a big PLNice to have:

  • Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
  • Experience in Cloud-based platforms like AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Expertise in performance assessment and optimization of complex applications built on SAP BTP platform.
  • Strong understanding of BTP components like API management (APIM), Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) Conversational AI (CAI), Data Intelligence (SAP DI) and AWS storage services.
  • Skilled in BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration (SDI) & Hana Sidecar.
  • 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.
  • Strong understanding of relational database systems as well as in-memory databases.
  • Understanding of Algorithms and O-Notation
  • Code management using Git or other VCS.

Behavioral Skills:

  • Excellent Communication skills and collaboration skills
  • Ability to propose and implement improvements in the system
  • Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders

Qualification/Certifications Needed:

  • Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant major.
  • Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect and Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer is a plus.
  • Masters Degree is a plus.
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