Lead Performance QA Engineer (offline)

Responsibilities

Determine the performance system requirements and create a Performance Test Strategy and Plan
Design an Application Simulation Model
Drive Development scripts and scenarios for performance testing
Build and maintain monitoring and metric gathering solutions (dashboards) and ensure they meet client's expectations
Execute load, stress, volume, endurance tests as required
Identify potential and ongoing performance and capacity issues of different solution layers, report performance metrics with tuning recommendations
Assist development teams in code reviews, running up profilers on different layers (DB, code, network, etc.), investigating environment configurations, tuning and supplying remediation activities to performance problems
Technical leadership, training and mentoring performance team members

Requirements

Extensive Performance Engineering and Testing Experience (6+ years)
Ability to set up Performance testing process from scratch and plan performance testing activities throughout SDLC phases
Understanding of performance bottlenecks, end-to-end performance measures (server response time, throughput, latency, etc.) and what to be tuned to get better performance and scalability
In-depth expertise in development approaches for assuring web / mobile application performance needs
Experience in performance prediction / modeling analysis and application capacity planning during SDLC phases
Working experience in various Performance testing tools like Jmeter, Gatling, HP LoadRunner, Locust, etc.
Solid experience in any object-oriented and scripting programming languages (Java, C#, Python, etc.)
Experience in reviewing system / deployment architecture and providing recommendations for better performance
Good experience in measuring/monitoring performance of various layers (web-, app-, DB-server, network and server hardware performance) involved in end-to-end system
Experience in performance monitoring and APM tools like DataDog,NewRelic, Perfmon, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
Experience in using profiling tools like Jprobe, Jconsole, VisualVM, HP Diagnostics, etc, including GC / JVM analysis tools and heap/thread dump analysis tools
Experience in DB profiling tools like Statspack / SQL profiler, etc
Experience in analyzing the application usage traffic using log parsing or other tools like DeepLogAnalyzer, etc.
Good knowledge of TCP/IP stack of protocols
Working experience with Linux
Ability to setup and maintain jobs using CI tools i.e. Jenkins
Experience with Cloud Computing & Cloud services infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong English verbal and writing skills

Requirements (Managerial and Presale experience):

Leading team of 4+ people at last 2 years
People management skills
Deep understanding of interviewing process
Participating in pre-sale activities
Experience in conducting Performance solution audit

Personal skills

Strong analytical skills and great interest towards problem analysis and tuning
Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
Strong communication and problem solving skills
Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you

A Centre of Excellence is ultimately a community that allows you to improve yourself and have fun. Our centers of excellence (CoE) bring together all Ciklumers from across the organization to share best practices, support, advice, industry knowledge and to create a strong community
Close cooperation with client
Constant flow of new projects
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style
Continuous self-improvement

About Ciklum International

Ciklum (www.ciklum.com) is a leading global product engineering and digital services company, serving Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations.

Headquartered in the UK, Ciklum has 4,000+ software developers, designers, product managers and data scientists around the world building tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies. Ciklum specialises in enabling digital transformation for some of the largest household names in the digital economy.

The Company empowers its clients and people to exceed their potential and pursue the extraordinary.

Join one of the top 10 employers in Ukraine, according to Forbes.
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Company website:
https://www.ciklum.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/ciklum/