[Hiring] Senior Performance Test Engineer @Insperity

Role Description

This position is responsible for closely working with Product Owners, Developers, Solution Designers, and Quality Assurance personnel to gather non-functional requirements, develop and execute performance test scripts, and analyze application performance issues across multiple applications across Insperity’s portfolio.

• Acts as an extended scrum team member on multiple teams and conducts system performance testing to ensure application reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Collaborates with Product Owners, Business Users, and the Scrum team to identify performance requirements and develop a performance testing strategy.
• Designs various types of performance test scripts and executes them based on the application requirements. This can include:
  • Load testing
  • Stress testing
  • Spike testing
  • Endurance/stability testing
  • Scalability testing scenarios
• Monitors both client-side and server-side application performance using in-house and commercial tools.
• Analyzes the performance test results, participates in root cause assessments, and provides recommendations for improvements.
• Provides detailed level test reports.
• Collaborates with the Application Health and Performance team to monitor system performance post-deployment and uses that information to continue to refine tests in pre-production.
• Suggests new tools and techniques to improve testing efficiency.
• Conducts training and provides assistance to Associate and Mid-Level Performance Test Engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• Five to seven years of professional experience with performance testing, including scripting and custom scripting, and/or software development is required.
• Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum model environment.
• Strong understanding of performance testing requirements and converting them to executable performance testing scripts.
• Strong understanding of automation/performance script creation using NeoLoad or other applicable performance test tools.
• In-depth understanding of how to properly perform parameterization, use checkpoints, develop reusable functions, use correlations, schedule iterations, pacing, and think time.
• Highly proficient in Performance Workload Modeling and Capacity Planning.
• Perform analysis of client-side statistics like response times, throughput, hits per second, etc.
• Strong knowledge of web servers (Apache, IIS, etc.), application servers (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.), database servers (Informix, Oracle, MS SQL, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring server performance counters, e.g. CPU utilization (Host/Process), host memory utilization, heap memory usage, thread and connection pools, etc., using AppDynamics and other application monitoring tools.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Requirements

• Knowledge of advanced SQL.
• Working experience with C#, Java, and .NET frameworks in order to participate in design and code inspections to proactively assist in identifying bottlenecks.
• Possesses and applies a knowledge of heap and thread dump analysis, CPU, and memory profiling data.
• Basic development knowledge for custom coding implementation in NeoLoad.
• Working knowledge of MS-Excel (macros, graphs/charts, etc.) to automate any test reporting.
• Experience using Visual Studio/TFS for project management and defect tracking.
• Knowledge of Fiddler, JProfiler, Jconsole, or VisualVM.

Benefits

• Over 80% of Insperity’s jobs have flexibility.
• Continuous learning programs, mentorship opportunities, and ongoing training.
• Generous paid time off, top-tier medical, dental, and vision benefits, health & wellness support, paid volunteer hours, and much more.