Principal Test Performance Engineer
Location: Boston, MA/Tampa, FL (Hybrid 3 days/week)-
Duration: 12 Months Contract to hire.
Job Description:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience
• Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Experience developing tools with JMS/IBM-MQ/Kafka messaging system
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS,
• Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk)
• Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including:
• Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Time series analysis and forecasting
• Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling
• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle
• Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience in the financial services industry