Job Description

We are urgently looking to fill following role with our direct client.

TITLE: Sr. Performance Engineer (Jmeter / Cloud )

LOCATION: Sunnyvale, CA

DURATION: 6+ months

Compensation: DOE

Client Note and Must skills

Senior Performance Engineer with experience in Performance Testing using tools like Jmeter , Java and Cloud experience ( Azure preferred )

Required Qualifications:-

• Experience in Performance testing, profiling, tuning and monitoring tools, especially testing tools such as Silk Performer, Apache JMeter, or LoadRunner
• Self-starter attitude required to experiment with new technologies, research technology trends and apply the results to performance problems
• Basic familiarity with continuous integration tools and frameworks like Jenkins, etc
• Strong experience with Web Services, and XML technologies (REST, SOAP, JAXB, WSDL, XML
• Experience with JAVA and SQL performance tuning experience (e.g. garbage collection, heap management, JVM Configuration, V$ table, explain plan, query optimization etc.
• Expert ability to identify performance issues within the J2EE architecture Load balancers, Weblogic, Database, Operating system , System, Network, Software (JAVA) and Hardware
• Excellent ability to partner with Architects, Developers, Systems Engineers and Database Administrators to collaboratively tune systems
• Exposure to  Apache, Tomcat, VmWare, OpenStack technologies a PLUS
• Experience in some programming languages (using   Java, C, SQL, Perl, Shell scripting, etc.) a PLUS

Responsibilities:-

• Work collaboratively with a large group of engineers from all disciplines within Engineering
• Test execution and reporting using Performance testing tools such as LoadRunner and JMeter
• Good Java expereince
• Present findings from tests to a group with varying degrees of technical expertise
• Proactively investigate site performance issues
• Respond to inquiries/requests around performance and availability coming from various teams within the organization
• Collaborate with key stake holders
• Research technology trends and apply the results to performance problems
• Experiment with new technologies
• Respond quickly to critical requests"