Performance Test Engineer

A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Performance Test Engineer for their team client in the McLean, VA area.

Responsibilities:

The Performance Test Engineer will:
Support performance testing for agile projects that manage development and deployments using Azure DevOps
Support performance testing using Tricentis NeoLoad Platform
Collaborate with DevOps engineers, developers, and network and cloud engineers to plan, design, and develop performance tests in support of DevOps and Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipelines
Ensure all testing complies with company policies, system requirements, standards, and best practices
Manage test planning and test cases using Azure Test Plans and will be responsible for testing web application User Interfaces, APIs, and participating in the development of performance test frameworks
Conduct performance engineering and testing activities for cloud, web-based, client-server applications, and REST API and web services
Qualifications: Significant hands-on experience with Tricentis NeoLoad platform
Experience in understanding non-functional requirements and designing test strategy and design
Hand on performance testing experience with large scale on-premises and cloud native applications
Hands on experience in web services testing including REST APIs
Experience creating NeoLoad scripts using protocols such as web/HTTP/HTML and web services
Experience using web services and REST API testing tools such as Postman and SoapUI
Collaborate with delivery teams, developers, and testing teams to build integrated Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
Experience with monitoring tools such as CA APM, New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, DataDog, and AppInsights and log monitoring tools such as Splunk
Prior experience configuring performance testing in a CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps classic and release pipelines, Jenkins, or AWS Code pipelines)
Experience monitoring architectural components of systems under test (e.g., client-side analysis, web, application, database, and network layers)
Desired Skills Prior experience with LRE/JMeter
Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java
Selenium - High level
SQL Queries - High level
AWR Report Analysis
JVM Internals (e.g., Garbage Collection)
Linux Commands
Client-side analysis Tools (WebPageTest, Google Lighthouse, Sitespeed.io)