What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Testing Engineer position at Intact Technology?
Performance Testing Engineer
Reston, VA/ Remote
Intact Technology is seeking exceptional technologists to develop, implement, integrate, manage, and administer ServiceNow solutions for large enterprise customers. US Citizenship Required.
The ideal candidate will enjoy a fast-paced culture that promotes the development of new ideas in an innovative environment. This candidate must be customer focused, have excellent time management, communication, leadership, and follow-up skills.
Intact Culture:
Intact is committed to customer success, employee satisfaction, and making the world a better place. Our culture thrives on individuality, independence, autonomy, and empowerment. We promote a healthy work/life balance full of flexibility to spend time with your family and cultivate your unique personal hobbies and interests. (We can’t wait to learn about yours!)
We know that our people are our most valuable resource; therefore, we demonstrate an authentic interest in the well-being of our employees. This is evident not only in the way we handle remote work and time off, but also in the personal and thoughtful questions we ask, and the personal development goals we help employees achieve. Intact is committed to providing the highest level of service to its customers, and we know that begins with employees who feel valued and fulfilled. We take pride in creating a positive workplace and experience for our employees and have been named a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022,2023, and 2024. We really care about you, and we really mean it!
Visit our team page, if you’d like to see what other employees are saying.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Perform capacity/performance management and stress testing for Tier 2 systems (UNIX, Linux & Windows) according to industry standard procedures.
- Assist the Performance Assurance with a performance and load testing strategy, to include:
- General, overall support in the areas of troubleshooting, resolution of stress testing and capacity/performance problems reported from the field, to include development, test, production, or disaster/recovery domains/machines.
- Analyze and recommend changes to Tier 2 hardware and software to improve performance such as configuration tuning, additional hardware, additional software, etc.
- Conduct performance testing by generating load on webserver or application using virtual user technology.
- Work closely with staff to prepare test scripts and simulation workload.
- Prepare final test report and to post on Performance Assurance Section 2 website.
- Other duties as necessary for meeting performance expectations and/or assigned to Employee from time to time by Intact.
Required Qualifications:
- Knowledge, skills, abilities and demonstrated experience with, but not limited to the following software and hardware platform environments and for the successful execution of tasks
- Performance Analysis Tools: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, Athene, LoadRunner Cloud and other tools as acquired
- Programming languages: C, Java, Pearl
- Hardware Platforms: Sun Solaris, Windows/LINUX Servers, ESX/HP x86 and cross-platform microcomputers
- Prepare/perform capacity/performance tests and write the performance test result reports.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Accuracy - Deliverables shall be accurate in presentation, technical content, and adherence to accepted elements of style. Deliverables shall be free of spelling, grammatical, punctuation, and typographical errors.
- Clarity - Deliverables shall be clear and concise. All documents shall be easy to understand.
- Format - Deliverables shall be provided in the expected format referenced above.
- Timeliness - Deliverables shall be submitted on or before the due date specified or submitted in accordance with a later scheduled date determined by the Contracting Officer Representative or Contracting Officer.
- We are stakeholders in our customer’s success. Do it well or not at all!
- We are super passionate about delivering the best outcomes for our customers.
- Our people are doers, makers, creators, thinkers and creative problem solvers.
- Our culture thrives on individuality, independence, autonomy and empowerment.
- We encourage a healthy work/life balance.
Exceptional benefits for exceptional performers:
- Ongoing personal and professional development
- Unlimited paid time away from work to go on adventures, relax, or recover, plus 12 paid holiday
- Company holiday closure December 25th – January 1st
- Premium healthcare plans, Medical, Dental, Vision including HSA and FSA options
- Qualified 401k Program
- Virtual happy hours and other team building events
- Wellness Clubs that cater to different interests
Intact Technology is an Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, age, gender identification, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability.