Performance Engineer – 6 Month Contract

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October 16

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CompassX Group

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B2B • Consulting • Technology

CompassX Group is a business and technology consulting firm that specializes in delivering services across several sectors including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer discretionary. Their expertise includes technology advisory, data solutions, business resiliency, and agile product evolution, helping organizations to implement effective strategies and improve operational efficiencies.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2009

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📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Engineering, Quality Engineering, Support, Product Management and DevOps teams to review and document requirements, execute performance tests and troubleshoot/resolve (blocking) issues. • Design and execute different performance test strategies depending on unique project purposes and requirements • Analyze test results and establish reliable mathematic models for response time, throughput, SLA and other application performance metrics • Grow and evolve our performance tooling and testing processes to ensure tests are customer-like and representative of real-world scenarios • Identify existing bottlenecks in the hardware and software platform, application code stack, network and disk IO • Measure and document reliable predictions on potential bottlenecks as computing platforms and workloads change • Communicate test results and analysis to Engineering, Operations, PM, Network and DB teams • Develop unique performance testing tools, analysis methodologies, as well as capacity planning • Support the Engineering teams with tools and frameworks to enhance system performance, scalability and stability. • Help and guide other QE teams to develop their own performance test plans and scripts • Co-ordinate multiple performance test projects within the limited test resources; provide expert opinions in understanding and analyzing their test results • Identify gaps, issues, or other areas of concern, and proactively define, propose, and enact process and workflow improvements to mitigate such issues.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience in performance engineering. • 3+ years of experience with code first performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Gatling) and performance analysis via DataDog or similar platforms. • Advanced coding skills in Javascript or Typescript • Extensive experience working with microservices architecture, preferably with RESTful and GraphQL APIs. • 3+ years of hands-on experience in testing APIs, Web applications is a must • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting. • Proven ability to perform profile/baseline, load and stress testing, soak, spike testing etc. • Proven ability to drill down into results and complete deep dive root cause analysis • Strong technical communication and documentation skills