Lead Performance Test Engineer, DC

The senior performance engineer will also be responsible for working with development teams on architecting and developing large-scale performance testing projects, overseeing their implementation and remediating performance issues with the development team. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of application design, infrastructure, and operations such that the senior performance engineer can be a leader in the organization within the test and integration team for the products they have responsibility.

  As part of our elite team, you will define, develop, execute performance/load tests and integrate them with automated test systems (web client/server). To be considered for this position you:

• Must have hands-on experience of performance/load testing tools.
• Analyze performance problems in complex Java applications and suggest remediation strategies.
• Assist in the development of application standards (coding, logging, performance)
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in Java/C development or other software development experience.
• Experience with Java based application frameworks like Play/Spring/Hibernate
• A good understanding of web application and browser concepts (HTTP, connections, cookies, caching, streaming, etc.)
• Experience Working with data sets using common standards like JSON, XML, CSV, etc.; a general understanding of data storage, encoding, encryption, data transformation, and related concepts
• Demonstrated attention to code quality, maintainability, and version control
• Experience with various java/application monitoring tools as well as server monitoring tools.
• Experience with writing scripts in Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, VBScript, or a Linux/Unix/Windows shell scripting language
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to critically analyze performance test results.
• Must have deep knowledge of how web applications work over HTTP protocol.
• Expert in analyzing performance test result and identify bottlenecks of web applications.

               Experience of developing testing tools.

Required Skills

• Strong ability to analyze requirements and convert to detailed test cases (positive, negative, exceptions, etc…)
• Tenacity to take each performance issue as far as possible, often to the point of being able to suggest a fix
• Entrepreneurial spirit to get great things done for the team and the business
• Min 5 years of experience using automated test tools for Functional and/or Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability testing using LoadRunner, WebTest, JMeter, Watir, Fit, FitNesse, Ruby or others
• Min 5 years of object oriented programming experience, with C#, Java, Ruby, or C++
• Min 5 years SQL experience and an ability to write intermediate to complex SQL code
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Creative and independent problem solver

Qualifications

• Experience working on performance testing and engineering of large scale web applications.
• Experience on any performance testing tool (HP Performance Center, Jmeter, VSTS, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring tools New Relic APM, App Dynamics, Compuware APM (Dynatrace).
• Experience with diagnostics tools to identify root cause like HP diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing Java based applications.
• Experience in both Windows and UNIX environments.
• Strong written, oral & presentation skills.
• Excellent communication and customer facing skills

Must be able to work independently as well as within a group while handling projects.

Technologies and Tools

Proficient with Java and/or C# and a scripting language

Experience

Seeking 10 years of experience performing software development activities, with a Bachelor’s Degree, or 8 years of experience with a Master’s Degree

Location

Maryland/Washington DC Region