Senior Performance Engineer - Waltham, United States - SS&C Technologies Holdings

Description

Job Description

Senior Performance Engineer

Location: Waltham, MA, USA

Get To Know The Team:

The SS&C Intralinks team is currently searching for a Senior Performance Engineer, specializing in application performance testing, tuning and developing performance test framework.

Why You Will Love It Here

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more

What You Will Get To Do:

• Design performance test framework and help development teams runs performance test
• Work closely with internal customers (other development teams) collaborating with them to optimize Intralinks application in test environments and help troubleshoot production issues
• Inspect iterative results and propose improvements to technique, tools, and process.
• Work with a broad array of technologies and tools.

"One of the best things about Intralinks from a performance engineer's standpoint is you will always get to use the newest technology out there."
-Quote from a Performance Engineer in our Waltham, MA office.

The Project:
We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to join our Engineering team. Our SaaS platform helps Enterprises across the world to securely collaborate and exchange mission-critical business content. Responsibilities include design and implementation of automation frameworks for performance testing, deployment, and upgrade of web-scale application services facilitating agility, velocity and resiliency of software delivery. Drive architecture discussions, performance optimizations and end to end improvements into the platform with development architects and leads
Qualifications:
7+ years of relevant experience

This position will facilitate performance testing of Intralinks applications. Our team (CoE PaCE – center of excellence performance and capacity engineering) focuses on the followings,
Assist development teams with process + guidance on how to conduct performance testing of IL applications Provide affective done criteria for developers to integrate performance testing in SDLC Design/develop custom testing framework for development teams to run their performance tests Develop custom monitoring and analysis framework to support their testing needs Help/support SCRUM teams with all their needs specific to performance testing/monitoring/tuning and data creation

What You Will Bring:

• Experience with at least one of programming/ scripting language (Java/Groovy/ Javascript)
• Experience in UI performance testing
• knowledge of shell scripting and experience with Linux-based systems
• Experience with kubernetes based application performance testing
• Experience with Selenium scripting including creating automated tests and performing web browser automation tasks. (Need mainly for UI performance)

Following skillsets with proven hands-on experiences are preferable

• Software performance testing & tuning of web based application ( in house & cloud)
• Application development and automation with java
• Test automation and framework development with jMeter or SOASTA or LoadRunner
• Application performance monitoring using Dynatrace or DataDog or SPLUNK or similar tools
• Deep understanding of web, app and database layer testing and tuning
• Deep understanding of log monitoring, pattern identification, test data design and performance KPIs
• Kubernetes cluster deployment, automation & optimization (AWS & on-premises, experience with docker based Kubernetes is a plus) - good to have

For this position, candidate must pass a written exam and 2 rounds of interviews.