Performance Engineer - Only GC or EAD or CITIZENS

Company Description

Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Job Description

Performance Engineer - Only GC or EAD or CITIZENS

Reston VA

Must have skill: C#, Javascript, SQL, JSON, Visual studio

Senior QA Performance Engineer

Job Description: (the candidate needs dev and scripting skills, not just an HP LoadRunner admin)

The ideal candidate for the Performance Engineer position will have strong experience in developing performance and load test suites, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and assisting development and test teams with performance optimization. This position will have the responsibility for performance and load testing various applications. The candidate must be a self-starter, have excellent communication skills and be an adaptable team player.

Responsibilities & Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Develops test suites to conduct load, stress and performance testing according to industry accepted best practices
• Designs, develops, executes and analyzes the performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
• Maintains the quality and overall integrity of the test data
• Creates defects when issues are uncovered
• Writes, implements and reports status for all load/performance testing scenarios used for testing including performance under load, scalability and performance bottlenecks
• Analyzes test results and provides explanations of results to assist in the tuning process
• Work as a member of SCRUM team delivering high quality deliverables within the defined sprints

Requirements:

• Between 3- 5 years’ experience Performance and Load testing on Enterprise Web Applications
• Solid programming and scripting skills with an emphasis on C# and JavaScript languages
• Strong knowledge of SQL queries and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL 2012 and above
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, JSON and RESTful web service architecture and performance best practices
• Experience with performance testing and tuning on Microsoft IIS 7.0 and above
• The ability to infer or reverse engineer source code and database schemas in order to develop test harnesses that sufficiently exercise applications for performance and scalability
• Demonstrable experience with Visual Studio Ultimate test agents/controllers or similar commercial/open source performance and load testing tools
• Ability to assess the physical hardware supporting the application and extrapolate server environment needs based performance test results
• Ability to profile application source code to assist developers in identifying performance bottlenecks in the software Ability to formalize test results into reports that communicate findings
• Experience under iterative/agile methodologies a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Works well in a team environment and individually

Navya

navyar@usmsystems.com

703-953-1819

Qualifications

Additional Information

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to  navyar@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 953 1819