*Position : Performance Engineer* *Location : CINCINNATI, Ohio*
*Duration : Long term contract (1 1/2- 2 years* *Rate : $35/hr * *CANDIDATES MUST HAVE THEIR EAD, GREEN CARD, OR BE US CITIZENS. * Candidates not local to Cincinnati must first be able to conduct a face-to-face Skype interview followed by an in-person interview. Position Description: The Performance Engineering team provides performance testing services to the client's J2EE infrastructure and applications development teams in the US in order to ensure server capacity and application performance. Currently supported systems include high-volume consumer transactional online banking systems. The Performance Engineer role on the team is primarily responsible for planning, constructing, executing and analyzing performance tests on applications-under-test. Individual Responsibilities include: Create performance test plans. Synthesize and execute load tests with LoadRunner. Collect and analyze performance test data from LoadRunner, UNIX shell scripts and third party monitoring tools such as Wily Introscope. Deploy, configure, tune and support dedicated performance test environments. Enhance performance test capabilities by evaluating and developing tools( i.e. stubs, monitoring, ). Team Responsibilities include: Validate that the base system/application architecture can support(reliable, available, performance) expected production load. Validate that changes to the system/application do not negatively impact performance. Validate that the system/application is resilient to external influences(delays, failovers, dependency outages, ) Compare performance test results to production to create a predctive model. Compare performance test results to previous baselines to analyze trends. Find, triage and fix pre-production performance issues. Tune the system/aplication to improve performance. Troubleshoot production performance issues. Gather data to support hardware capacity projections. Ideal Candidate Requirements: BS Computer Science degree or equivalent Self-motivated and self-directed Excellent writing and communication skills Superior interpersonal skills, and must be able to work successfully in cross-disciplinary teams. Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment, on multiple concurrent assignments. Understanding of capacity planning and performance tuning concepts in a J2EE application environment. Passion for tuning enterprise applications for reliability, availability and performance. Technical Requirements: At least 5 years hands on IT development or testing experience. At least two years hands on current LoadRunner scripting, testing and analysis experience with emphasis on J2EE applications. At least two years hands on current WebSphere application deployment and performance tuning experience. Familiarity with Excel VBA to efficiently analyze test results. Familiarity with Wily Introscope to analyze and troubleshoot system performance. Working knowledge of UNIX operating system, UNIX commands and UNIX tools such as vmstat, ps and shell scripting. Working knowledge of Tibco middleware *SIGNIFICANT STRENGTH OR EXPERIENCE IN ONE OR MORE TECHNICAL SKILLS MAY BE CONSIDERED IN LIEU OF OTHER SKILLS.* -- Thanks & Regards Sirisha Suryadevara Manager-sales &recruiting Mutex Systems, Inc 50 Cragwood Road ; Suite 224 ; South Plainfield, NJ 07080. Office: 908-822-8515 Extn 25 Fax: 908-822-8719 [email protected] www.mutexsystems.com Disclaimer: If you do not wish to receive these emails in the future, please reply with "REMOVE" in the subject line and include all email addresses to be removed in the message text. We apologize for the inconvenience -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KNOW.IT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/know_it_az?hl=en.
