Senior Platform Performance Engineer with exp in LoadRunner, Selenium, UNIX, Script at Menlo Park CA

Job ID : 2407 L3

Location : Menlo Park CA

Duration : 12+ months

Title: : Senior Platform Performance Engineer with exp in LoadRunner, Selenium, JMeter, UNIX, Scripting(Shell/Perl/Python), Memory Dump analysis at Menlo Park CA 12+ months cont

Description:

Hybrid 3 days a week in office

Position Description:

• The Senior Platform Performance Engineer leads the overall strategy related to performance evaluation, scalability, resiliency and application reliability of applications built on distributed systems.
• This role is accountable for configuring applications on new systems, understand back end dependencies and design load scenarios to expose performance bottlenecks and provide recommendations to address the issues.
• This role is responsible for delivering high performance and scalable applications in a fast paced development environment collaborating with application development teams, business, architecture and other cross functional teams.
• The candidate is expected to code, conduct code reviews, and test software as needed, along with participating in application architecture and design and other phases of the SDLC.
• The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated team player committed to delivering on time and should be able to work with without or minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and execute performance workload models and performance testing strategies for a suite of applications running on distributed systems
• Instrument and use performance testing tools and develop custom tools to test streaming components.
• Develop automated solutions that promote self-service reporting of performance test results and reduce manual data collection
• Collaborate with application owners, product, functional leads and build performance test plans scenarios, and test plans for projects / initiatives
• Help with solutions for the performance issues identified during performance testing
• Understand functional scenarios to create effective performance scenarios which can expose potential bottlenecks and system issues to minimize business interruption
• Measure and report system performance metrics and provide detailed analysis of variations in throughput, response times, CPU and memory and provide recommendations to address the issues.
• With close co-ordination with application development, business and operation teams take the ownership of SRE function by defining and establishing industry best practices
• Realtime monitoring, identifying and tuning poorly performing services and provide improvement recommendations
• Directly working with stake holders, hardware and engineering teams in procuring hardware and configuring the applications and back end dependencies

Required Skills

• Minimum 8 years of hands on experience with performance testing of applications, api's, streaming components
• Minimum 5 years of hands on experience with automation tools LoadRunner, Selenium, and JMeter
• Minimum 8 years of experience in UNIX system administration skillset with hands on experience in configuration management
• Working knowledge and experience scripting in Shell, Python, Perl, Java and C
• Minimum 5 years of experience with profilers for heap memory and fine tuning of heap settings, memory dump analysis and GC issues
• Demonstrate a team player attitude with growth mindset and be open to learn and mentor juniors and ability to drive projects towards completion
• Excellent problem-solving skills, collaboration skills with ability to independently manage complete scope of performance, reliability and resiliency of the initiative
• Experience working on Agile/DevOps

Desired skills:

• Experience in Wealth Management or a similar Financial environment
• Experience in working on Cloud native architecture
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
• Improve existing software
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support