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Performance Engineer II 

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Description
  • Designs, codes, tests, debugs documents and implements changes to new and existing performance test scripts and solutions against many different technologies.
  • Develops and maintains automated test scenarios that measure and validate performance against requirements and according to the Performance Test Plan. May include the scenario execution, analysis, reporting and presenting performance test results to stakeholders.
  • Creates and documents performance test scripts based on service requirements that support the overall SDLC. Includes automated test scripts with LoadRunner. Is capable of working independently on the most challenging assignments.
  • Utilizes diagnostic and monitoring tools to detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack. May be asked to research and evaluate new diagnostic tools.
  • Communicates the performance testing status to performance test lead, project team members and the test manager to ensure timelines and quality are met. Responsible for publishing daily and weekly status reports when needed.
  • Responsible for user account/test data creation and maintenance in accordance to performance test plans.
  • Responsible for scheduling and maintaining the applications and infrastructures used during performance testing.
  • Responsible for facilitating check point meetings with customers and assigned testing resources to track the project status and discuss any open/pending issues/concerns. Includes bottleneck analysis or script replay issues.
  • The engineer will partner with Development to review development design documents to ensure performance and scalability is ”designed in” early in product development, and will collaborate with Developers to investigate thread contention issues, memory leaks, and other performance and scalability bottlenecks in the application and database layers, as well as measure, profile, and provide implementation recommendations.
  • Responsible for maintaining performance measurement instrumentation used to observe application and infrastructure performance across diverse hardware, operating systems, application servers, and databases. Includes Client Experience Monitoring, transaction tracing with diagnostic tools to detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack.
  • Mentor less senior team members. Shares expertise and provides guidance to others as required to assist the performance testing team.
  • Mentor cross functional team members in performance test tools and practices that can be employed early SDLC. Shares expertise and provides guidance to others as required to assist the project testing team.
  • Designs and executes performance tests to meet scalability test objectives created by Capacity Planning.
  • Responsible for maintaining automated test environments and scripts for use in release to release and project performance test scenarios. Includes researching new and future performance test tools and technology.
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining Client Experience monitors and on boarding new applications integrated with Real User Monitoring (RUM).
 
Position Requirements
  • BS in Computer Science preferred.
  • A minimum of 5 years experience in IT functional and performance testing Experience with automated testing tools a plus but not required.
  • 5 + years of experience and the following skill sets; testing applications on Windows and Unix/Linux platforms testing multi-tiered and distributed applications programming languages such as C++, Java, C, .Net, Delphi, Visual Studio shell scripting languages such as Perl, Bash Web servers IIS, SunOne Application servers such as HP Weblogic, Microsoft .Net, Jboss Databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Informix Have used automated test tools like: Mercury LoadRunner, WinRunner, Quicktest Pro. Database or application tuning experience a plus Combined experience in any of the following: performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or code profiling. Hands-on experience with any of the following profiling or diagnostics tools: CA/Wily Introscope, HP/Mercury Diagnostics, Yourkit, SoapUI Pro, Quest JProbe, JProfiler, Aternity, or Visual Studio Performance Tools. Hands-on experience with any of the following Client Experience monitoring tools: HP/Mercury Real User Monitor (RUM), HP/Mercury Business Process Monitor, Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence.
 
Category Information Technology  
Location NY, Rochester, Rochester 220 Kenneth Drive Office  
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time  
Req Number INF-16-00274  
Open Date 11/3/2016  
Hiring Manager(s) Brian Dudiak  

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