Position: Senior Performance Tester
Overview: As a member of the Performance Automation & Testing Team, reporting to the Team Lead, you will be tasked with delivering performance testing services across a wide range of applications, technologies, and teams within the Enterprise Technology Software Engineering Domain.
This role offers an exciting chance to join a vibrant team and contribute to the integration and execution of performance testing within a CI/CD framework, collaborating with teams in the US, India, and Ireland.
Role Requirements: We are looking for a Principal Performance Engineer who is passionate about performance testing.
The ideal candidate should be enthusiastic about their field, committed to continuous learning, and motivated to drive change.
Your Skills: Experience in executing performance tests within an Agile environment (Kanban, Scrum).Ability to design and execute automated performance tests using Jenkins to support continuous integration.Demonstrated ownership and accountability through self-directed task management for project delivery and backlog items based on priority.Initiative to evaluate and recommend new tools and processes aligned with performance testing strategic objectives.Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.Responsibilities: Assist teams in embedding integrated performance testing to support continuous integration and ensure early feedback in the development lifecycle.Deliver application-based performance testing, ensuring scope is well-documented, executed, monitored, and performance issues are effectively resolved.Continuously develop your skills.Challenge the status quo to ensure continuous improvement of the performance testing shared service.Maintain project status, initiate discussions with stakeholders or external groups to resolve issues, and work directly with the user community for project definition.Identify and support the implementation of process improvements.Your Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.Over 10 years of experience in performance testing.Proficiency and hands-on experience with tools such as:Databases: TOAD, IntelliJ, OEM, AWR reportsProfiling: JProfiler, DynatraceNetworking: WiresharkPerformance Loading: JMeter, LoadRunnerContinuous Integration: JenkinsSource Control: GitHubStrong programming skills in at least two of the following languages: Groovy, Java, SQL, Bash.Desirable experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, ASG, ALB, EBS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager).Expertise in database tuning, including SQL profiling, contention/locking analysis, and bottleneck analysis.Experience with JVM tuning, including garbage collection and heap analysis, and an understanding of various GC methods.Familiarity with monitoring and diagnostic tools like Splunk and Datadog.Experience with mocking frameworks such as Wiremock.Ability to work with enterprise systems using messaging technologies like Kafka.Strong understanding of systems architecture, web technologies, Oracle RDBMS, and Linux operating systems.Important: This role is a hybrid position located in Galway.
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