Expert Performance Engineer Permanent

ORGANIZATION

Join one of the world’s leading providers of financial software solutions and services. With operations, clients and markets across the world, this vibrant community of tech-enthusiasts utilizes cutting edge technology, while offering ample opportunity for innovation and growth. The organization encourages entrepreneurship and recognizes and rewards achievement. They embrace and foster an environment that builds on the unique talents that come from a variety of people and perspectives.

THE POSITION

The Expert Performance Engineer will execute the performance engineering activities aligned to SDLC and will work closely with development engineering and product development teams to understand the performance and other non-functional requirements on projects.  This position requires a highly motivated individual that is comfortable with rapid changes in direction and a fluid environment.  The successful candidate should be detail-oriented, approachable, dependable, and reliable with good business sense and judgment.  This position requires a self-starter with the ability to manage & prioritize multiple concurrent automation and performance testing projects.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Leadership and autonomy
• Opportunity to utilize cutting-edge, state of the art, open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem technology (Kubernetes, Azure, etc.)
• Work on new leading edge project such as the new generation of mobile banking systems
• Working with products that are used by thousands of financial institutions worldwide

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver against performance engineering goals
• Execute Performance Engineering and Testing activities in SDLC leveraging Agile methodology
• Create, re-factor, extend, and maintain performance test scripts. 
• Help determine appropriate metrics to be gathered during performance testing and be responsible for analyzing and tracking against these performance testing metrics on an ongoing basis.
• Help determine appropriate benchmarks for performance and be responsible for analysis and tracking against these benchmarks.
• Design and implement performance, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools, and custom solutions.
• Assist in driving the performance, scalability, and capacity testing strategy.
• Gather performance test requirements and create performance qualification plans.
• Collaborate with development and production support teams on identification of bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Benchmark Production and Test Labs for baselining and ensure accuracy of test simulation
• Develop tools to simulate and monitor key performance metrics as needed.
• Understanding of impact of application design on performance.

• Work collaboratively across multiple teams to achieve results.
• Communicate test results vs. test schedule and test plans.

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

• Minimum 5+ years of practical experience in performance engineering (not just performance testing)
• 5+ years of experience with load testing tools (Taurus, StormRunner, Load  Runner, Gatling, LoadUI, or equivalent)
• 2+ years of experience with Microsoft technology stack (.NET and .NET Core frameworks, SQL Server, Visual Studio, CRM Dynamics etc).
• Experience with Devops tools and designing performance frameworks on pipelines
• 2+ years of experience with application and system profiling tools (DTrace, AQtime, JProfiler or equivalent)
• Experience with APM vendors / solutions (AppDynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace or equivalent)
• Experience with monitoring systems and tools such as Kibana, Prometheus (metrics) is a plus
• Experience with Web Technologies, Web Services/XML/Micro services
• Linux/Solaris OS experience.
• Expertise with NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience with source control and issue tracking systems.
• Experience with Azure Cloud based environment is a plus.
• Experience with BI, ETL and Data warehouse performance tuning is a plus
• Experience in performance testing for  financial application, Loan, Mortgage system is a plus
• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system and onshore/offshore is a huge plus
• Experience in with Kubernetes, docker, helm, GIT is a plus
• Experience with Microsoft technology stack, visual studio, TFS is a plus
• Experience with Selenium with Java or Python

SKILLS QUALIFICATION

• Expert knowledge in all aspects to Performance Engineering including SDLC & Architecture, Performance validation ( profiling, tuning, workload simulation, benchmarking & testing), Capacity Planning,  Application Performance Monitoring and problem detection and resolution.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies
• Solid understanding of issues of scale and performance in large-scale cloud environments
• Expert in definition of  Non-functional requirements(NFRs) and validation of NFRs in architecture, design, build phases
• Expert knowledge in end to end profiling, tuning, recommendations for overall system scalability
• Ability to identify, debug and propose viable solutions to issues of scale and performance.
• Ability to comprehend complex system architectures and find creative approaches to testing them.
• Ability to write effective and reliable performance scripts from requirement specifications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

CONTACT: Marilyn Dai,  Sr. Technical Recruiter       [email protected]                       (416) 366-2600 x 241