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Job Title: Performance Test Engineer
Work Location: Hybrid (minimum of 3 days a week in our Okemos or Farmington Hills office)

Performance Test Engineer

Primary Job Responsibilities:

·       Design and lead comprehensive performance testing strategies to validate system behavior under load, stress, and peak conditions.

·       Align these strategies with business requirements and project goals

·       Create, configure, and execute complex test scripts in JMeter to simulate real-world usage scenarios and workload patterns.

·       Optimize and troubleshoot scripts to achieve accurate and reliable performance assessments.

·       Utilize Dynatrace for continuous performance monitoring, tracking key application metrics (response time, throughput, resource utilization) and diagnosing issues in real-time to support proactive performance management.

·       Integrate performance testing and monitoring tools within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring that performance issues are identified and addressed early in the development lifecycle.

·       Perform in-depth capacity planning analysis, determining optimal infrastructure requirements to handle projected workloads and recommending strategies for scaling applications in Kubernetes environments.

·       Use Bitbucket for version control of test scripts, configurations, and related documentation, fostering effective collaboration and change tracking within performance engineering teams.

·       Collaborate with development, DevOps, and operations teams to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and recommend tuning or architectural changes to improve application performance and scalability.

·       Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes clusters, ensuring efficient use of resources, autoscaling configurations, and resilience under load.

·       Generate detailed performance reports and dashboards that present test results, analysis, and insights for various stakeholders, including senior management and engineering teams.

·       Conduct root cause analysis for complex performance issues, using Dynatrace and other diagnostics tools to trace issues to specific components, services, or resource configurations.

·       Initiate proactive approach to advocate for performance engineering best practices, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in performance testing and monitoring processes.

·       Document test strategies, configurations, tuning recommendations, and lessons learned, ensuring continuity and knowledge sharing within the team.

·       These responsibilities ensure a strong focus on performance optimization, scalability, and reliability in modern cloud-native environments, making use of advanced testing, monitoring, and automation capabilities.

·       Actively participate in PI planning sessions to align performance goals and establish testing strategies and set realistic performance targets.

·       Ensure all the dependencies are identified, documented and addressed.

 Minimum Qualifications:

·       Position requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering and seven years of experience in applications and systems performance testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years’ experience in application development.

·       Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.

·       Strong hands-on experience with JMeter for creating complex test scripts and scenarios.

·       Proficiency with Dynatrace or similar APM tools for real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and root cause analysis

·       Ability to interpret performance data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and areas for optimization

·       Experience managing and optimizing performance in Kubernetes environments, autoscaling, and tuning applications for efficient use of cluster resources.

·       Knowledge on versioning and CI/CD integration tools like Bitbucket and Jenkins for maintaining test suites

·       Advanced knowledge of DB/SQL/Linux and experienced working in agile work environment.

·       Effective communication skills and ability to resolve complex problems and use independent judgment.