Senior Performance Engineer

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Role - Senior Performance Test Engineer 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute performance tests to measure application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Loadrunner, or Neoload
• Analyze performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations for improvement
• Creating Performance test reports including associated metrics
• Design end to end performance test strategy and test plan
• Develop performance testing framework & data collection tools
• Effective communication with the cross functional teams such as Development, Product, Business Analysts and SMEs to understand/clarify Non-Functional requirements
• Understanding products and usage workflows for an effective performance analysis
• Serve as a key member and will be responsible to deliver high-quality products.
• Align the performance testing with the various SDLC/Agile methodologies and customer environment to make it successful
• Able to take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the Performance Testing effort, and its schedule and prioritization aligned as per Organization goals
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Solid 6-8 years of hands-on experience in using any of the performance testing tools such as  JMeter, Gatling, HP LoadRunner, Neo Load, Blaze Meter etc., with various protocols like HTTP/HTML, Web Services, MQ, Websocket etc. 
• Extensive experience in end to end Performance Testing, Analysis, Troubleshooting and Optimization of large-scale enterprise systems
• Strong understanding of performance testing concepts and various test types such as load testing, stress testing, endurance testing etc. 
• Hands on Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, SumoLogic or Splunk
• Proficiency in any of the scripting languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, Bash or Groovy
• Good experience working in Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Agile, CI/CD, DevOps environments
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes clusters and pods
• Experience with continuous integration tools (i.e. Jenkins, Travis)
• Innovative skills to improve performance engineering and system scalability effectiveness
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret performance test results and identify areas for improvement
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams

 Nice to have:

• Familiarity with open-source software
• Linux OS system management experience
• Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, etc.
• Operational knowledge of Drupal or any content management system in a production setting
• Certifications in Testing or Cloud technologies 

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

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