Senior Performance Engineer
Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
We seek a strong Performance technical Engineer with expertise in designing test strategy for a scalable SaaS application for automated testing which involves interactions with other technical architects to align with best practices. The ideal candidate should have rich experience in understanding enterprise architecture and complex systems and be able to architect automation frameworks that performance tests the system and identify key areas having performance issues with detailed analysis. They should also be capable to drive the performance issues to conclusion by interactive with stake holders as required.
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
5+ years of experience as Performance Lead/Architect role
• Experience with performing system Performance and scalability testing. Being able to drive architecture discussions, performance optimizations and end to end improvements
• Deep understanding and hands on experience in performance test and automation frameworks like JMeter, selenium, cypress, codecept, Cucumber framework, Junit, etc. API automation, experience working on CI/CD, version control tools like git
• Being able to arrive at the metrics and scenarios for a complex product (that involves discussion and coordination with multiple stakeholders)
• Experience with Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, openshift
• Experience in technically coaching and guiding junior Performance engineers.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Good communication skills and technical leadership qualities
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