Performance Engineer - QA, Officer

Overview

Work as a senior member of a Performance Engineering scrum team to assess and analyze the performance of Charles River's products, identify potential bottlenecks, and recommend improvements. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.

What you'll do

• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Teams, Implementation Teams or Professional Services to understand the Non-Functional Requirements of products and projects.
• Create and maintain functionality within Performance Test Frameworks.
• Create comprehensive performance test plans from Non-Functional Requirements.
• Create and execute automated performance tests.
• Create, organize and maintain test artifacts.
• Analyze test results to identify potential bottlenecks.
• Spin up and tear down test environments as and when required.
• Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in cross-functional team activities as needed.

What you'll need

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other technical course of study, or Business with an MIS background.
• 10-12 years of experience in Performance Test Engineering in a process-driven technology environment on Cloud-based infrastructure.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• Extensive experience with Performance Testing Tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad or equivalent).
• Extensive experience with APM/Observability Tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics etc.).
• Extensive experience with bottleneck analysis.
• Experience with C#, Java, SQL, PowerShell and Bash.
• Familiarity with Windows OS.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing performance testing against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive non-functional and technical test plans.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• MS degree.
• Experience in one or more industry-standard profiling tools.
• DevOps skills, e.g. Python, knowledge of different Cloud Platforms, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity or equivalent), Git/GitHub.
• Knowledge in Financial Services.

Details

• Individual contributor role.
• Travel may be required on a limited basis.
• Location: Hyderabad, India.