Lead Performance Engineer

Lead Performance Engineer, for a one year contract in Plano, TX. We are hiring for a solid Java resource that understands development. This is for a skilled Performance Software Engineer with 10 years or more of experience. This is a one year contract W2/hrly or CTC. Extreme pace environment for the development and release of COTS software measured in weeks.

Key Technology Requirements:

Lead Performance Engineer

Location:

Plano, TX

Duration: 1 year

This is a very senior position. The client needs a seasoned Performance Engineer that has over 6 years of performance and load testing. They already have many performance Engineers. They need someone that can assume a leadership role. The client does a production release every 2 weeks. Therefore they have to automate as much of the testing and build process as possible.

They need someone that can bring a scientific approach to performance and load testing given their environment and constraints.

Environment & Tools:

Database:

NOSQL Cansandra

Application Server:
Tomcat

Web Services:
Restful JAX-RS

Framework:
Google Angular JS

Cloud:

Amazon Web Services

Testing Tool:
Junit, Jmeter, Jasmine

Build Automation:
Chef

Responsibilities:

• Drive business critical testing efforts to ensure performance, reliability and scalable
• Conduct automated testing to ensure the performance and stability of large multi-tier web applications
• Develop user behavior models for performance tests
• Analyze performance test results, diagnose bottlenecks and work closely with engineers to identify solutions. Analysis will include all application tiers, including web server, application server, database and network.
• Develop capacity projections for all systems including servers, network, and storage
• Oversee the application performance lifecycle from the performance lab all the way through to production
• Identify key metrics that define capacity
• Provide data collection and trend analysis
• Provide regular reports on the performance characteristics of the systems
• Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years professional technical experience, preferably in software engineering or quality assurance
• Strong desire to get 'under the hood' in web based applications and look at memory allocation and code execution with a focus on improving performance and customer experience
• Experience conducting performance investigations of complex systems
• Strong experience using performance testing tools, i.e.
  
  - HP Load Runner, Apache JMeter, SOASTA Cloud Test, Silk Performer
• Leadership mindset with a passion for mentoring others and driving key initiatives with little oversight
• Must have in-depth experience with at least one Java application server such as JBoss, Web Logic, Web Sphere or ATG Dynamo,
• Experience with Apache HTTP Server
• Strong system knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Strong knowledge of Java programming
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-minded with a strong orientation towards quality

This is a time sensitive placement, respond to:

Ken Martin