- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Company
CirrusLabs
United States of America
Location
Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)
Job type
Full-Time
JavaScript Job Details
Job Role: Performance Engineer
Job Description:
At Regions, the Performance Engineer conducts a wide range of quality control tests and analysis to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements and monitor the performance of the production systems. In addition, the Performance Engineer provides guidance and collaborates with various groups to develop and deploy high performing applications and systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
Collaborates with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks throughout the entire application stack
Recommends improvements to the architecture and deployment of applications under test
Emphasizes methods of integrating testing best practices into the application development lifecycle to reduce friction, identify potential problems early, and improve cross-collaboration
Participates in the Performance Engineering Community of Practice which is a technical platform that enables knowledge sharing and cross-collaboration, drive standardization and innovation
Collaborates with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches
Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure
Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios
Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases
Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution
Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings
Provides summaries and assessments of the application’s performance, emphasizing trends over time
Conducts “deep dive” analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified
Collaborates with Application Development teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner.
Participate in Program Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily standup meetings for development teams
Provides leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers
Leads or participates in cross-organizational initiatives
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Five (5) years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures on-prem and cloud
One (1) year of experience in software application development or test automation.
Preferences:
Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices
Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL), C, C++, C# or Java programming, and automated testing methodologies
Familiar with container technologies
Understanding of On Prem and Cloud
Familiar with open-source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk
Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning
Experience with cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)
Skills and Competencies:
Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack
Effective communication and leadership skills
Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk
Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, Performance Center
Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner
Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, n-tier, MQ, CICS)
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: Up to $65.00 per hour
Schedule:
Work Location: Remote
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