Performance Engineer

For a financial client we need Performance Engineer. This position is based in Merrimack, NH or Durham, NC. We are Primarily looking for W2 Candidates and not looking for Third Party Candidates. The responsibilities for this position include:

• Designing performance and chaos engineering strategies
• Monitoring and analyzing performance metrics and application logs
• Preparing and optimally communicating test results to Director level management
• Triaging defects with development/architecture partners and project teams
• Partnering with development/architecture teams to identify defect tuning recommendations
• Ensuring timely escalation of critical issues to development and performance engineering teams
• Coordinating activities of off-shore engineers as/when required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field
• 5-8+ years of experience in the Information Technology field
• 5+ years of experience in software performance testing against large scale end-to-end platforms
• Experience in software performance testing tools (e.g. LoadRunner, CloudTest, JMeter, etc.)
• Outstanding organizational, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills
• Strong motivation to decompose complex systems and understand how they work
• Advanced application memory consumption analysis skills
• Working knowledge of application server technologies such as Tomcat, Node, or Apache
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool experience is highly desired
• AWS experience is highly desired
• Automation experience is a plus
• Chaos Engineering experience is a plus