Performance Test Engineer

Company: Numeric Technologies, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Job Title : Performance Test Engineer Location : Austin, TX / Sunnyvale, CA Duration : Long Term Contract Direct Client : Apple Status: C2C/1099/W2 Request Summary: Description: For this role, we are looking for passionate performance engineers with excellent technical and communication skills. This role provides you opportunities to work on Performance testing of various software products and technologies at Apple IS&T in many business segments. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong programming and communication skills. As a Performance Engineer, you'll need to work with development engineers and functional analysts, understand new cutting edge software, and identify performance tuning opportunities. You'll work on developing test script, Performance Test automation frameworks, and fine tune these applications. You should have in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance, a solid understanding of the software building practices, as well as knowledge of object-oriented design principles. Responsibilities:

• Define, develop and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.
• Work in cross-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
• Work efficiently with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide root cause analyses.
• Devise and conduct experiments to evaluate performance impacts of system changes.
• Plan and execute performance tests using an automated testing environment and conduct analysis of results.
• Constantly evaluate the performance test strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts and own quality perspectives for the design. Must Have Experience:
  • Minimum 9+ years of proven hands-on performance testing experience.
  • Experience in data analysis and visualization, end-to-end performance analysis.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with JVM and Python tuning techniques.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
  • Extensive hands-on in database tuning
  • Efficiently work with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks. Following experience is a plus:
    • Mobile (iOS and Android) test automation
    • Cloud-based platforms
    • Docker and Kubernetes
    • Strong understanding of modern database systems
    • Algorithms and O-Notation Education / Experience:
      • Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant major
      • MOOC certification is a plus
      • Master's Degree is a plus
      • Graduation from top engineering and technology universities is a significant advantage Thanks & Regards Zak Houston Mobile No E-mail Id: Numeric Technologies, Inc. 4200 Cantera Drive, Suite 100 -- Warrenville IL 60555 - provided by Dice

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