Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams that are building our software to generate production workloads and tools to understand and characterize system performance and scalability
• Understand system architecture to isolate and layout limitations/problem areas
• Own development of automated performance test framework
• Establish and define performance baseline, monitor/analyze/catalog the results and ensure that our product hits defined target goals for performance
• Work with the engineering team, customer support, and field engineers to find and analyze performance bottlenecks and initiate discussions about improvements in architecture and underlying code
• Identify and recommend performance testing tools. Install, configure, and implement performance testing tools in a web cloud or N-Tiered application environment for custom developed or packaged software applications and systems.

Desired Qualification and Skills:

• Degree in computer science (e.g., a CS degree or extensive experience)
• 7+ years industry experience in Performance testing
• Experience testing APIs/Microservices and Data platforms
• Skilled with object-oriented scripting languages such as Python
• Good knowledge of database systems and query execution methods
• Extensive experience using JMeter. Experience with other tools like Tsung, Locust, Gatling are nice to have.
• Experience with AWS, Linux
• Experience with Fiddler, Wireshark, or other network packet capture tools are nice to have. 
• Experience with agile development methodology
• Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Ability to narrow down root cause of performance bottlenecks on both frontend and backend
• Solid knowledge on performance, the core principles and methodologies