Performance Engineer

What you'll do

• Understand performance KPIs, develop and execute test scripts for one or more products in parallel.
• Present and interpret findings, report defects, and create detailed execution reports.
• Review the Non-functional requirements with various application streams to identify the requirements for load testing.
• Actively learn and use infrastructure and application performance monitoring tools to help analyze and isolate bottlenecks and perform analysis.
• Coordinate Performance Testing activities between various teams on shared infrastructure and in accordance with schedules, ensuring compliance and procedural requirements are adhered to.
• Work closely with application development, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering groups for test and data planning, analysis, and for defining success criteria.
• Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of isolation techniques and tools.
• Design modular load test scripts for various scenarios to allow dynamic updates to the test design.
• Plan and execute custom design load tests as per the requirement from various stakeholders.
• Identify and collect all performance data and create actionable analysis to help resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Develop strong knowledge of monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk.
• Remain current with the performance testing methodologies.
• ZS is a global firm; fluency in English is required.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's Degree in CS or EE or equivalent.
• 1-3 years of Quality Engineering experience primarily in performance, scalability, reliability testing, preferably in a Cloud-based environment.
• Proficiency in Object-oriented programming languages, preferably C#, .NET, Java, or Python.
• Good knowledge of RDBMS, preferably SQL Server.
• Good knowledge of Web Applications and n-tier applications.
• Well-versed with Performance testing approaches and methodologies.
• Good knowledge of performance testing tools, such as Neoload, VSTS, LoadRunner, etc.
• Exposed to performance monitoring & diagnostic tools such as SQL profiler, PerfMon, Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic, etc.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and balance competing requirements and work.
• Effective organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS and Big data platforms such as Spark & Hadoop is a plus.