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Position: Performance Tester Location: CINCINNATI, Ohio Duration: 6+Months Rate: $40/hr Must first be able to conduct a face-to-face Skype interview followed by an in-person interview. The Performance Engineering team provides performance testing services to 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. Support the maintenance of dedicated performance test environments. *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. *Technical Requirements:* At least 5 years hands on IT development or testing experience. At least two years hands on LoadRunner scripting, testing and analysis experience with emphasis on J2EE applications. Familiarity with Excel VBA to efficiently analyze test results. Familiarity with Wily Introscope Working knowledge of UNIX operating system, UNIX commands and UNIX tools such as vmstat, ps and shell scripting. Working knowledge of either WebSphere Application Server or Weblogic Application Server. Working knowledge of Tibco middleware Significant strength or experience in one or more skills may be considered in lieu of other skills. Sareen Bhaskaran Resource Manager Prosoft Cyberworld Group 630-689-2960 ext 145 [email protected] YAHOO IM: sareen_recruiter (ONLY THOSE WHO ARE INTO SALES PLEASE ADD ME) PLEASE MARK A CC TO [email protected] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- 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.
