[Hiring] Performance Test Engineer @Dotmatics

Role Description

The Performance Test Engineer’s primary role is to help improve the quality of Dotmatics’ solutions by planning, creating, running and analysing performance tests. In this role you will work closely with Engineering teams to diagnose performance issues and validate improvements across releases. This role will also include occasional work with customers to reproduce, analyse and resolve performance issues.

In this role you will get to:

• Design, build and maintain performance test suites primarily using Apache JMeter to replicate realistic workloads (including API tests)
• Execute a range of performance tests (baseline, load, stress, soak etc) and carry out results analysis
• Produce high quality and clear reports that cater to different audiences with a range of technical abilities.
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Work with customers and engineering teams to triage reported performance problems as well as developing targeted tests to aid in the creation of fixes
• Work with Engineering and Services teams to advocate and drive best practice in coding standards to ensure Performance is at the forefront of development activities.
• Contribute to performance testing standards and documentation

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in Performance Testing roles
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Apache JMeter or another industry standard performance testing tool such as LoadRunner
• Experience of the full performance testing lifecycle (requirements gathering, planning, test creation, test execution, analysis and reporting)
• Scripting experience to support test creation (Groovy/JSR223 or similar)
• Working knowledge of regular expressions to support test creation
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings clearly to internal teams, management and customers.
• Attention to detail and a willingness to learn

Requirements

• AWS experience creating and maintaining performance test environments (EC2, AMIs, Security Groups, Route 53 config)
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Glowroot, PRTG)
• Java ecosystem familiarity
• Database performance awareness (Oracle)
• Background in scientific discipline (chemistry, biology, life sciences, informatics)
• SQL experience
• Experience with Apache Tomcat configurations and impact on Performance

Benefits

• Dynamic, remote-friendly environment
• Collaborative global team
• Opportunity to make a tangible impact in scientific innovation

Company Description

At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.