Job#: 2044921

Job Description:

Testing: Analyzing, planning and executing production-like simulations across mobile and web solutions to identify & remediate performance problems, prevent production outages, and guarantee predictable performance. Diagnostics & Monitoring: Instrumenting the complete application architecture to provide real user and system performance data to provide insight into the root cause of all application bottlenecks, enable real time visibility to reduce risk exposure. Performance Analytics: Measuring the relationship between end-to-end performance, user behavior, and business goals to maximize the business ROI, improve business KPIs, and increase efficiency. Business Optimization: Empowering technology/business stake holders with contextual intelligence to visualize, quantify and maximize the business value of performance to improve the quality & performance of the business, increase customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities * Strong leadership in developing the performance test plans and executing them with excellence, leading and representing the performance test team in meetings, comfortable working with cross functional IT teams and leadership team. * Dive deeply into SW/HW systems to solve for performance issues and make architectural, design and coding recommendations where needed. * Conduct Architectural & Technical reviews during software development life cycle and to identify potential bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements. * Collaborating with development leads and project team to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria and performance budgets necessary to measure, validate, and improve performance. * Collaborating with developers to promote the concept of performance engineering during all phases of the SDLC to detect and correct performance issues earlier in the lifecycle. * Monitoring application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues. * Profiling application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack. * Performing deep dive JVM analysis examining garbage collection logs, heap dumps, and thread dumps as needed. * Documenting performance findings and recommendations. * Interacting with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues. * Participating in re-architecture, redesign, and refactoring decisions to satisfy performance requirements. * Developing dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of client applications. * Socialize and promote a Software/Systems focused engineering mindset and the usage of APM tools during the application development life-cycle phase across platforms. * Responsible for developing a Performance Test Strategy, Scripting & executing Performance Tests, perform root cause analysis and provide mitigation. * Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers & databases to drive optimization changes in production environment. * Work with 'Service Owners' to optimize the configuration of clients, servers, and networking equipment to enable system/application performance across the enterprise. * Plan and manage deliverables for: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring. * Conduct system performance and stress testing, analyze test results and suggest action plans. * Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders