Senior QA Performance Engineer

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Transfer Pricing

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Transfer Pricing services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals. You’ll focus on all aspects of documentation planning, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.

Our team is responsible for all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities, including transfers of intellectual property, transfers of tangible goods, services and loans, and other financing transactions.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop performance test strategies/plans by driving conversations with developers, architects, product owners and other stakeholders to ensure the plan is comprehensive and effective.
• Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability as needed.
• Develop test reports including observations, recommendations, and conclusions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop performance scripts in tools such as Apache JMeter and BlazeMeter
• Ability to read and understand KPI metrics from performance test tools as well as from application performance monitors (APM tools).
• Assist with troubleshooting and identify performance’s issues root causes
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Identify, escalate, and drive response to risks and issues.

SKILLS:

• At least 5 years of experience in performance testing
• Knowledge of hardware performance characteristics (storage subsystems, memory subsystems, networks, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with containers (e.g. docker) and microservices.
• Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure cloud solutions and services (e.g. AKS clustering, etc.)
• Experience developing performance test strategies and building testing methodologies
• Develop test scripts using Apache-JMeter & BlazeMeter
• Experience with monitoring tools such as perfmon, Splunk, Datadog, and AppDynamics
• Experience and ability to analyze test results and highlight deviations from Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Strong knowledge and programming experience in languages such as Python, C/C++, Java/JavaScript.
• Strong SQL database knowledge and experience writing queries to push/pull information from SQL Server database.
• Experience and knowledge of Agile methodology for the SDLC

• Understanding the importance of proper information management.
• Information security and data protection knowledge
• Proper management of information security

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

English

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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