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*This candidate MUST have lead experience! * *Position: Performance Test Lead* *Client: Northwestern Mutual* *Location: Milwaukee, WI* *Contract: one year +* *Performance Test Lead/Engineer * *Required Skills and/or Competencies: Based on performance requirements, recommend performance test strategy and provide written estimate of the effort and duration for that testing engagement. Plan performance testing for multiple concurrent large projects, analyze results to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend solutions to resolve performance issues. Review the performance test results with members of the project team and management prior to the release of any associated changes to the production environment. Coordinate with application development, quality assurance/test and operations teams to analyze system components and identify needed changes to resolve the performance issues. * *Required: * *5-7 years in planning and coordinating technical efforts for multiple concurrent large projects, including four 4-5 years in performance testing and with automated testing tools; or equivalent combination of education and experience. * *An ideal candidate would be either: * *(A) a strong technical lead or “Performance Engineer” with an interest in and proven capabilities in planning and coordination* *(B) a project lead with significant technical aptitude. * *· The high complexity of the work requires critical thinking skills and strong planning abilities. * *· Ability to effectively analyze and diagnose performance bottlenecks involving CPU, memory, IO, network transport and other IT components Familiarity with performance tuning principles, methods and tools. * *· Familiarity of methods, tools, and technology used in automated performance testing, Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and teambuilding skills, working with technical and non-technical individuals at various levels of management and non-management positions * *· Ability to communicate with individuals at a level appropriate for the audience * *· Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing* *· Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, clients and public Considerable knowledge and understanding of the Internet and all of its components. * *· Strong coordination abilities, along with a sense of how to work with project teams and business areas to explain the value of performance testing, working in a consultative role. * *Important to have an understanding of NM’s infrastructure:* *· Considerable knowledge of primary database engines * *· Thorough understanding of common application architectures. * *· Thorough understanding of UNIX, Linux and Windows server associated performance components and metrics.* *· Desirable to already have experience in collecting server metrics and reporting them using tools. Preferred Skills * *Preferred: 5-7 years in quality assurance with full life-cycle test, writing test plans, developing test cases and implementing test strategies; Previous direct experience with 3rd party external performance monitoring systems and results is highly desirable, e.g., Gomez, KeyNote, Dynatrace (or other End to End monitoring tools) and SPLUNK,etc. Familiarity of the agile methodology. * *Deepak Gulia *| Simplion – cloud*.* made simple Direct: 408-516-4015 | Fax: 408-935-8696 | Email: deepak.gu...@simplion.com *INC 500 *|* 5000* Honoree – 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 *Fast Private Companies* award by Silicon Valley Business Journal – 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 *Best Places to Work in Bay Area *by San Francisco Business Times – 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009 *Minority Business Enterprise *certified by NMSDC *We are an E-Verified Company* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle-Projects" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oracle-projects+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to oracle-projects@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-projects. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
