Performance Engineers - Boston, United States - CPS Insurance Services

Description

Performance Engineers are responsible for design, implements and improves load automation framework solution for the developed products.

Must be able to work in an agile team environment with other quality engineers, software engineers, quality analysts, technical writers, and product owners.

Proficiency in load/performance engineering principles and standards is a key requisite for success in this position.

What a day in the life looks like:

Develop and define comprehensive performance testing strategies for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives

Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks, tools, and methodologies

Analyze the business scenarios and understand the non-functional requirements to lay the foundation for robust performance testing frameworks

Build a performance testing roadmap for the Koerber products by analyzing the current state of the projects

Proficient in breaking down the phases and building the performance architecture roadmap. Collaborate with development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to optimize application performance

Build modular automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based applications and mobile applications utilizing SOA design and APIs in a continuous integration environment to provide remediation plans

Collaborate closely with the technical team lead and director to deliver non-functional test solutions aligned with defined objectives, schedules, standards, and cost targets, reflecting the technical test strategy

Take ownership of the non-functional test solution throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring responsibility for each milestone within the release cycles

Provide professional project planning, estimation, non-functional test approaches, technical test solution quality, issue/risk management, and results/analysis considering the department standards

Employ load, stress, and analysis tools to model performance scenarios. Conduct initial analysis using performance monitoring tools, identifying potential system and resource bottlenecks

Analyze performance results and produce relevant reports and quality metrics with suggestions for improvements

Stay abreast of emerging trends in performance testing, researching and recommending system configuration and tuning improvements based on thorough observations

Leverage some experience in load/performance testing microservices for SaaS products. This includes performance testing UI, APIs, and microservices with other service dependencies

Work with the development, QA, DevOps, and Services teams as required to analyze the load execution results

Mentor and guide fellow team members leveraging technical test resources to enhance overall team proficiency

Demonstrate a working knowledge of cloud environments and deployments

Develop dashboards and reports to offer ongoing visibility

Provide actionable information and suggestions for the scalability and security of the application

Develop and execute load automated test scripts using tools like K6, JMeter, Load Runner, or similar, ensuring comprehensive performance testing

Work closely with DevOps and services teams to define test data for performance test execution

Executes and maintains the continuous integration pipeline

Suggests new tools and techniques to enhance the testing teams productivity

Must participate in demos and code reviews to learn how the feature functions to write load test cases and give feedback on the design

Proactively seek assistance as needed to complete work in a reasonable amount of time

Proactively seek to provide ideas on how to automate the product(s)

Mentor more junior performance engineers in the process, tools, Products, etc

Works independently while following established guidelines and delivering quality work on time at defined checkpoints

Manages multiple projects simultaneously and delivers on-time results

Actively participate in the Agile process such as daily huddles, estimating, code reviews, and retrospectives

Continuous education to stay up to date on new automation practices


Skills required:
Experience with Load/Performance Tools used in the project

Proficiency in performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, or similar

Experience with performance monitoring tools

Experience with cloud-based performance testing and monitoring tools

Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)

Understanding of different technologies and methodologies including SDLCs, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, Source Control, etc.

Good understanding of any Performance tools, Performance Stats, C#, Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL, SQL tuning, Tracing tools, Azure DevOps, VSTest Console, Junit, and PowerShell

What we do for you:
Work in fast-paced and dynamic environment, with international clients and colleagues

Access to competitive Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

The option to enroll in 401K matching program

Flexible Time Off, 11 days paid holidays and 1 day of volunteer time per year

Fun, casual, and flexible work environment


Job Type:
Full-time.

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