Senior Performance Engineer - JMeter & Loadrunner

JDA

Job Summary

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for defining, measuring, breaking, and fixing system behavior under real-world conditions to ensure product scalability, stability, and predictable performance. You will participate in the design and development of skeleton/stub components for integration tests, develop automation utilities, gather and validate Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), mentor team members on performance testing, analyze test runs, report defects, and prepare performance test reports.

Must Have

  • 5-8 years of experience as Performance Tester/Engineer on Java based application deployed on-prem/on-cloud
  • Expertise in JMeter as automation tool
  • Hands-on with performance tools JMeter / Gatling / k6
  • Experience with APM tools, log analysis, profiling tools
  • Understanding of metrics needed for performance certification of a Java application
  • Understanding of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
  • Proficiency in Linux perf commands & Shell scripting
  • Experience with Telegraph, Influx, Grafana for Application monitoring
  • Ability to perform Thread Dump analysis, GC logs analysis, Heap dump analysis
  • Strong and innovative approach to problem-solving
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Flexible, proactive, and self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership and problem resolution
  • Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimum supervision
  • Ability to prioritize under pressure
  • Ability to learn on the job and apply knowledge to achieve results

Good to Have

  • Java and Data structures knowledge
  • SQL knowledge
  • Experience with Tomcat/Netty
  • Understanding of REST API’s
  • Experience working/administering Azure or any other cloud service provider
  • Experience with Hazelcast or any IMDG (In Memory Data grid) or REDIS
  • Experience with Kafka or any messaging systems
  • Understanding of Microservices architecture
  • Ecommerce and Retailer domain understanding
  • Understanding of Kubernetes architecture and administration

Job Description

Scope:

  • You own performance. You define, measure, break, and fix how the system behaves under real-world conditions. You ensure the product scales, stays stable, and performs predictably—before customers find out it doesn’t.

Our Technical Environment:

  • Performance Engineer with expertise in JMeter
  • Java and Data structures
  • Understanding of Linux Operating System and shell scripting

What you’ll do:

  • As a Performance Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the team with following responsibilities.
  • Participate in design and development of skeleton/stub components for the successful integration tests..
  • Develop automation utilities and scripts that help to automate mundane tasks.
  • Participate in status meetings with Project stakeholders on need basis.
  • Gather and validate the NFR’s shared by customers/stakeholders.
  • Mentor the team members on Performance test activities as the need arises.
  • Analyse the Performance test runs and report defects and share the findings. Prepare and review Performance Test reports

What we are looking for:

Must Have:

  • 5-8 years of experience as Performance Tester/Engineer on Java based application deployed on-prem/on-cloud with expertise in JMeter as automation tool.
  • Hands-on with performance tools JMeter / Gatling / k6, APM tools, log analysis, profiling tools.
  • Understanding of metrics needed performance certification of a Java application
  • Understanding of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
  • Linux perf commands & Shell scripting
  • Telegraph, Influx, Grafana for Application monitoring.
  • Thread Dump analysis, GC logs analysis, Heap dump analysis.
  • A strong and innovative approach to problem-solving and finding solutions
  • Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal)
  • Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership and problem resolution
  • Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimum supervision.
  • Ability to prioritize under pressure
  • Ability to learn on the job and apply the knowledge to achieve results.

Good To Have:

  • Java and Data structures
  • SQL knowledge.
  • Tomcat/Netty
  • Understanding of REST API’s
  • Experience working/administering Azure or any other cloud service provider
  • Hazelcast or any IMDG ( In Memory Data grid) or REDIS, (Nice to have)
  • Kafka or any messaging systems.
  • Understanding of Microservices architecture
  • Ecommerce and Retailer domain understanding
  • Understanding of Kubernetes architecture and administration

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

About Us

Who are we?

We are a proven, passionate bunch of disruptors. Our work is all about tapping into your potential so we can deliver the best solutions and customer experiences on the planet. Collaboration, respect, and a great work-life balance earned us the title of "Best Place to Work- Employees' Choice" by Glassdoor. Our people are smart, creative, rock stars with over 400 patents and 10,000 people years of domain expertise.

What do we do?

Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our intelligent, end-to-end platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to seamlessly predict, pivot and fulfill customer demand. With Blue Yonder, you can make more automated, profitable business decisions that deliver greater growth and re-imaged customer experiences. Blue Yonder - Fulfill your Potential. ™ blueyonder.com

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