Performance Tester
Arlington, VA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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Description
Performance Tester

Years of Experience: 3 years

Education Requirements:A Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required.

Program Description: Create an end-to-end management perspective to ensure proper compliance and oversight of GI Bill programs, and the use of data and business intelligence to monitor and measure school and student outcomes.

Responsibilities:

The Performance Tester will:

* Participate in performance test planning, execution, and validation, capacity planning, and application performance management.

* Review the performance testing strategy, audit the existing NFR's, and identify gaps in performance testing execution approach

Requirements

Required Skills:

* Understanding of performance best practices (e.g., JVM settings, Network Variability impact on Performance of distributed systems).

* Proficiency in JMeter, Neoload, Loadrunner, API's performance tuning, AWS / cloud ecosystem, microservices platform performance analysis.

* Leveraging profiling tools (i.e. Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Splunk) to analyze and define performance characteristics of an application, recommend enhancements, and trouble shoot bottlenecks.

* Performance troubleshooting (heap dump & thread dump analysis).

* Application and infrastructure scaling analysis and recommendations.

Soft Skills:

* Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

* Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

* Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

* Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

* Problem Solving: Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

* Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.

Benefits

SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • AD&D
  • STD
  • LTD
  • Company paid Life Insurance
  • 401k with employer contribution
  • Paid Time Off

Systems Engineering Solutions Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
3+ years
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