Performance Engineer- Gremlin Hystrix

Job Title: Performance Engineer- Gremlin Hystrix

Location: Bloomfield CT

Type: Full Time

Job Description:

• Performance Testing tool: Scripting using Neoload, HP Load runner and HP Performance Center
• Resiliency Testing tool: Gremlin, AWS FIS, Hystrix
• Specific Monitoring tool/APM : Splunk, Dynatrace, oracle enterprise Management(OEM), CA APM , Jprofiler and database monitoring tools
• Specific Protocols : Http/HTML , web services (SOAP over HTTP, REST), Ajax truClient, Citrix.
• Support the Production, non- production development and testing environments.
• Provide synthetic data to testing teams.
• Design and implement highly available log & metrics aggregation, alert management, infra and service health/dependency visualization/reporting,
• Configure monitoring/alerting/reporting for logs & metrics using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, ...
• Make technical recommendations on monitoring improvements
• Analyze logs and metrics to identify root-cause of application anomalies and provide tuning recommendations
• Work closely with delivery and operations specialists to ensure proper tuning and operation of systems/applications
• Work closely with application development teams during release rollout to analyze agent performance impact and troubleshoot issues
• Design and develop robust performance test scripts in Loadrunner and Neoload .
• Coordinate and assist with setting up and maintaining the performance test environment with necessary access and test data.
• Execute the performance testing types including stress, load, soak, spike, fail-over, configuration, and isolation as applicable. Utilize/gain knowledge of Application Performance Management (APM) tools like CA APM, Splunk etc to troubleshoot performance issues.
• Design and execute the resiliency test for various hypothesis conditions such as CPU, Memory, Network, Blackhole, D&R as applicable. Utilize/gain knowledge of resiliency testing tools like Gremlin, AWS FIS etc to uncover impact & recovery pattern.
• Coordinate with application owners, DBAs, middleware and other IT teams to identify bottlenecks, suggest and run exploratory tests and help them to tune the system.
• Perform browser level performance testing and analysis using HTTP watch/Fiddler /UX tools/Webpage Test, etc .
• Hands-On Knowledge in Jenkins / Grafana / GitHub / Open Source Monitoring Tool.