What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Performance Testing Engineer position at The Baldwin Group?
We’re looking for a highly motivated, practical, and responsible Senior Performance Testing Engineer who is excited to play a critical role in our rapidly growing Platform team. The Senior Performance Testing Engineer role will make significant contributions to the overall success of our organization ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of applications and infrastructure.
The successful candidate will have experience with the design and development of test strategies, as well as ensuring the creation of high-quality scripts and performance tests. Additionally, they are responsible for troubleshooting performance issues, conducting root cause analysis, and most importantly, driving problems towards appropriate solutions.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Develop strategies for performance and load testing to ensure system reliability and scalability and defining performance benchmarks and KPIs.
- Design and create performance test plans and scripts for various load scenarios.
- Execute and monitor performance and load tests on cloud-hosted (AWS) applications, identifying performance bottlenecks and resource constraints.
- Analyze performance data to generate reports and provide actionable insights and recommendations for improvements.
- Collaborate with teams to identify and address performance needs and communicate test results to all stakeholders.
- Identify non-functional requirements, prepare test scenarios, develop and address technical issues with test scripts, and prepare and review test results with development and cross-functional teams as necessary.
- Work with development teams to optimize code, queries, and infrastructure, and implement caching and load-balancing techniques.
- Design, Develop and Implement Performance and Load testing capabilities for core AWS Services, Serverless Compute, RDS, Gateway, CloudFront etc.
- Integrate and Automate Performance and Load testing into CI / CD pipelines.
- Stay updated with trends, continuously improve processes, and identify optimization opportunities.
- Manage testing tools, and maintain a comprehensive documentation library on implementation guides, and participation in Knowledge Sharing sessions.
- Be an advocate at BRP for implementing best practices and standards regarding performance and load testing frameworks and processes.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as required or requested
QUALIFICATIONS :
IMPORTANT NOTICE :
This position description is intended to describe the level of work required of the person performing in the role and is not a contract. The essential responsibilities are outlined; other duties may be assigned as needs arise or as required to support the Firm. All requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate physically or mentally challenged colleagues.
