Performance Engineering Architect

Job Title

Performance Engineering Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Must Have:

• Strong experience in performance engineering & testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments.
• Expertise in using Performance tools such as NeoLoad, JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• Strong experience in understanding of application architecture, NFR's & identifying production workloads. Experience in load, soak, scalability, and other types of performance tests
• Advanced knowledge of web application protocols (HTTP, TCP, Websockets, REST, GraphQL)
• Experience in writing monitoring and data extraction tools in Java, Python, or Unix Shell.
• Experience with APM tools such as Dynatrace/ AppDynamics/New Relic and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, etc.
• Experience with application monitoring/Observability, building dashboards, identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing.
• Experience in Capacity planning and Performance tuning.
• Experience in AWS or Azure platform to run performance tests.
• Experience in performance engineering for J2EE/ .NET / LAMP, etc.
• Experience in monitoring queues with tools like AnyPoint, MQ explorer etc.
• Experience in running automated performance tests via CI/CD pipelines (on platforms like Cloudbees, GitHub etc.)

Good to Have:

• Experience with chaos testing/engineering tools such as Gremlin/Chaos Monkey/Azure Chaos Studio etc.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience in observability/ Site Reliability engineering.
• Participate in monitoring and establishing key operational metrics

Experience Required

12+

Roles & Responsibilities

• Create Performance Test Plan, Test Strategy per NFRs
• Develop scripts in different Performance tools like Neolaod, Jmeter and Loadrunner.
• Design and run tests like Load, Soak, Scalability etc.
• Monitor and analyze from tools like Dynatrace/ AppDynamics/New Relic etc.
• Application monitoring/Observability, building dashboards (Grafana tool), identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing.
• Developing frameworks to automate the activities in performance engineering life cycle.
• Create CI/CD pipeline to execute performance tests.
• Experience in AWS or Azure platform to run performance tests.
• Proactively communicate project requirements to project team and wider organization as and when required.
• Communicate all key aspects of the status report on a regular basis through monthly updates and other updates as critical developments occur.
• Demonstrated success as a self-starter.
• Ability to work with a team and motivate the team to achieve project deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills using a methodical approach.
• Ability to create consensus among different stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to the project/application stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to the project/application stakeholders

Generic Managerial Skills

• Experience in Leading Project.
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results.
• Proficiency using presentation to explain complex information to non-technical management person