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Location: Galway (Candidates must live within 90 minutes of office location)
Work Model: 75% Hybrid (3 weeks remote, one full week on site per month)
Reporting to the Team Lead of the Performance Automation & Testing Team, you will be responsible for providing performance testing services across a diverse set of applications, technologies, and teams as part of the Enterprise Technology Software Engineering Domain.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and support the integration and delivery of performance testing in a CI/CD context working with teams in the US, India, and Ireland.
We are seeking a Principal Performance Engineer with a passion for Performance testing. We are interested in someone who is enthusiastic about their craft; enjoys continuous learning and has the drive to implement change.
The Expertise We’re Looking For:
* BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
* 10+ Years Performance Testing Experience required.
* Proficiency & practical experience using tools like:
* DB: TOAD, IntelliJ, OEM, AWR reports
* Profiling: JProfiler, Dynatrace
* Network: Wireshark
* Perf Loading: JMeter, LoadRunner
* CI: Jenkins
* Source control: GitHub
* Strong Programming experience in at least two of the following: Groovy, Java, SQL, & Bash
* Experience with Database Tuning and knowledge of SQL profiling, Contention/Locking analysis, Bottleneck analysis etc.
* Experience with JVM Tuning: GC & Heap analysis, understanding of different GC collection methods
* Experience using Monitoring and Diagnostic tools such as Splunk and Datadog
* Experience working with mocking frameworks like Wiremock
* Ability to work on Enterprise Systems leveraging messaging technologies like Kafka
* Excellent understanding of Systems Architecture, web technologies, Oracle RDBMS, & Linux Operating Systems
The Skills You Bring:
* Experience executing performance tests in an Agile environment (Kanban, Scrum)
* Able to Design and execute automated performance tests using Jenkins to support Continuous integration
* Demonstrate ownership and accountability through self-directed task management on project delivery work and backlog items based on priority
* Demonstrate initiative to evaluate and recommend new tools and processes aligned with performance testing strategic objectives
* Good communication skills, both written and oral.
* Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
The Value You Deliver
* Help teams to embed integrated performance testing to support continuous integration and ensure early feedback in the development lifecycle
* Deliver Application based Performance testing ensuring scope is appropriately documented, executed, monitored and performance issues effectively remediated
* Continuously develop skills
* Challenge the status quo ensuring continuous improvement of the Performance testing shared service
* Maintaining status of projects, initiates discussions with stakeholders or external groups to resolve issues, works directly with the user community for project definition.
* Identifying and supporting the implementation of Process Improvements
Please note: this is a contract position. Sponsorship is not possible for this role. You should only apply If you reside in Ireland within Commuting distance to Galway and have the right to work full time in Ireland (Stamp 4 or EU/UK citizen)
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Quality Assurance
* Industries
Staffing and Recruiting and Financial Services
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