Contract Position of Performance Lead @Norristown, PA or Mason, OH – Remote initially

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Job/title: Performance Lead

Location: Norristown, PA or Mason, OH – Remote initially

Contract || Remote || C2C

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Job description:

• Provide quality releases for our stakeholders.

• Ensure a positive user experience for our customers by performing load and performance testing across multiple products to verify that our applications meet industry standards for reliability and response time.

• Work with Agile team members across the organization

• Provide detailed insight into performance test strategy across multiple products.

• Provide functional and technical expertise as it pertains to performance testing within a product domain.

• Contribute to establishing, revising, and verifying performance testing standards, processes, and procedures.

• Work with product team and document system requirements related to performance and workload.

• Ability to work with the architects and understand the overall architecture of the product.

• Lead the creation of load and performance test plans to capture test requirements, assumptions, and test conditions.

• Design, create and maintain load and performance test scripts using NeoLoad and other performance test tools (Ex: jmeter).

• Execute load and performance tests against web-based applications, web service interfaces, and back-end server components.

• Work with the product team to understand the data needs and establish the test data in sufficient quantity to support the performance testing needs.

• Document test results identifying and reporting performance issues.

• Develop testing tools to simulate production data and drive testing of key system components.

• Provide technical assistance to interface and system integration test efforts across Quest Diagnostics systems.

• Identify production metrics important to performance/load testing efforts.

• Collect metrics and perform trend analysis.

• Hands-on experience testing both on premise and cloud-based application.

• Experience in results analysis using APM tools – Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Site-scope and providing suggestions for performance tuning of the products

• Java and .Net Engineering:

o Profiling

o Bottle neck analysis

o JVM Analysis and tuning (Thread, Heap and GC)

• Able to performance tune cloud applications and provide cloud autoscaling recommendations

• Certifications in Azure/AWS cloud is a plus.

• Container and Kubernetes based applications testing knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge of network protocols, application security, and multi-tier cloud application architectures.

• Working knowledge of building and testing with CI/CD pipeline for Performance Testing.   

• Working knowledge of GITLab , Rally, Jira, Splunk etc.

• Knowledge of Database testing and sql knowledge to pull the data from DB.

• Working knowledge in Chaos Engineering is a plus.

• Coach, lead, and mentor other team members.