Position: Performance Testing Expert for Ciklum Digital (TUI)
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 300+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance and Cyber Security.

**Responsibilities**
Determine the performance system requirements and create a Performance Test Strategy and Plan
Design an Application Simulation Model
Drive Development scripts and scenarios for performance testing
Build and maintain monitoring and metric gathering solutions (dashboards) and ensure they meet client’s expectations
Execute load, stress, volume, endurance tests as required
Identify potential and ongoing performance and capacity issues of different solution layers, report performance metrics with tuning recommendations
Assist development teams in code reviews, running up profilers on different layers (DB, code, network, etc.), investigating environment configurations, tuning and supplying remediation activities to performance problems
Technical leadership, training and mentoring performance team members

**Requirements**
Extensive Performance Engineering and Testing Experience (4+ years)
Ability to set up Performance testing process from scratch and plan performance testing activities throughout SDLC phases
Understanding of performance bottlenecks, end-to-end performance measures (server response time, throughput, latency, etc.) and what to be tuned to get better performance and scalability
In-depth expertise in development approaches for assuring web / mobile application performance needs
Experience in performance prediction / modeling analysis and application capacity planning during SDLC phases
Working experience in various Performance testing tools like Jmeter, Gatling, HP LoadRunner, Locust, etc.
Solid experience in any object-oriented and scripting programming languages (Java, C#, Python, etc.)
Experience in reviewing system / deployment architecture and providing recommendations for better performance
Good experience in measuring/monitoring performance of various layers (web-, app-, DB-server, network and server hardware performance) involved in end-to-end system
Experience in performance monitoring and APM tools like DataDog,NewRelic, Perfmon, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
Experience in using profiling tools like Jprobe, Jconsole, VisualVM, HP Diagnostics, etc, including GC / JVM analysis tools and heap/thread dump analysis tools
Experience in DB profiling tools like Statspack / SQL profiler, etc.
Experience in analyzing the application usage traffic using log parsing or other tools like DeepLogAnalyzer, etc.
Good knowledge of TCP/IP stack of protocols
Working experience with Linux
Ability to setup and maintain jobs using CI tools i.e. Jenkins
Experience with Cloud Computing & Cloud services infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong English verbal and writing skills

**What's in it for you**
A Centre of Excellence is ultimately a community that allows you to improve yourself and have fun. Our centers of excellence (CoE) bring together all Ciklumers from across the organization to share best practices, support, advice, industry knowledge and to create a strong community
Close cooperation with client
Constant flow of new projects
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style