Technical / Functional Skills 

• 8+ years of software product development and delivery experience. 
• 6+ years of performance engineering experience.
• Ability to identify system bottlenecks with strong troubleshooting, problem solving & reasoning skills. 
• Familiarity with tools such as Neo Load, JMeter, JRunner, Load Runner and JProfiler.
• Strong knowledge of load generation and measurement software.
• Experience in using monitoring tools & ability to identify performance issues.
• Experience in Web technologies and SQL performance tuning.
• Experience with Load balancers, Webservers, Database, Operating System, Network Software and Hardware.
• Ability to partner with peers to collaboratively tune applications/systems performance.
• Experience in Web server, Application server and Database performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of memory leak, site monitoring and Network packet sniffer tools.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and work collaboratively with stakeholders to implement innovative, strategic and long term solutions with regards to performance engineering best practices.
• Consult with project teams and business owners to proactively analyze system performance and obtain information on limitations / capabilities, performance requirements, hardware & software interfaces to develop specifications and resolve technical issues related to performance.
• Responsible for capacity estimation/planning, modeling, monitoring, analyzing and recommending solutions to performance problems with enterprise business applications.
• Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers & databases to drive optimization changes in production environment.
• Plan and manage deliverables for: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• Conduct system performance and stress testing, analyze test results and suggest action plans.
• Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.
• Drive performance engineering as an integral step during the software development life cycle.
• Instrumentation and Profiling of application
• RCA and Bottleneck identification, with Thread, Heap, Call Graph et al analysis