Principal QA Performance Engineer, AVP
State Street · Hyderabad, India · 1mo ago
Summary:
Work as a senior member of a Performance Engineering scrum team to assess and analyse performance of Charles River’s products. Identify potential bottlenecks and come up with possible recommendations. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.
Responsibilities:
Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Teams, Architects, and Client Services to define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), performance objectives, scalability goals, and workload models.
Performance Benchmarking:
Create comprehensive Performance test plans from Non-functional Requirements
Create and maintain performance scripts within performance test Frameworks
Scenario and workload model design
Design and Develop end to end CI/ CD pipelines to execute performance tests and artifact collection
Analyse results to identify potential bottlenecks and provide recommendations
Spin up and tear down Test Environments as and when required.
Observability:
Architect end to end observability strategies
Enhance the existing observability framework leveraging Dynatrace and OEM
Understanding of Dynatrace agent deployment, configuration and onboarding
Design and develop end-to-end observability pipeline
Dashboard and alert configuration.
Performance Engineering:
Analyse infrastructure (On prem and cloud), Application (Code, JVM, database) performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) leveraging Azure monitoring, Dynatrace, OEM
Expertise in Java and .Net code profiling
Expertise in understanding AWR/ASH reports, SQL execution plans, thread dumps, heap dumps, GC logs, and observability data
Lead performance investigations into production issues, client escalations, and providing actionable remediation recommendations
Drive performance engineering automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple product teams.
Document software defects in issue tracking system, proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Qualifications:
Education:
B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.
Experience:
12-15 years of experience in Performance Engineering Domain
Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications
Extensive experience with Performance Testing Tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, Neo Load or equivalent)
Extensive experience with Dynatrace
Extensive experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Extensive experience with Azure Cloud platform
Experience with C#, Java, SQL, Oracle, Python, PowerShell and Bash
Exposure to Dev Ops skills, CICD Tools (Jenkins, TeamCity), Ansible, Terraform, Git/GitHub, Docker and Kubernetes
Demonstrated experience implementing and executing performance benchmarking against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch jobs
Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive non-functional and technical test plans
Knowledge in Financial Services a plus
A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
About Charles River Development:
Charles River Investment management System in a platform that provides many Front-Office functions including Portfolio Management, Order Management and Execution, Compliance, Performance & Attribution, Modelling, Scenario Analysis, and Wealth Management.
We are part of the State Street Bank. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark in the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.
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