Position: Senior Performance Engineer
Company: Avenga
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About the project**:
We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to join our product development team that develops a communication tool for the healthcare industry for our American customer. The platform makes it easy for doctors to communicate with their patients and with each other. It is already used by many US clinics to provide a positive patient experience and simplify administrative workflow. You will be able to take decisions about the product and technical strategy every day. 

**Requirements**:
- 4+ years of experience working in a Quality Engineering or Test Automation focused role;
- 2+ years of experience in Performance Testing;
- Proficient in the deployment and configuration of Linux;
- Good understanding of CI pipeline design and support;
- Skilled in using Postgres;
- Experience with the k6 load test tool (JavaScript);
- English – Upper-Intermediate or higher.

**Nice to have**:
- Knowledge of AWS;
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails;
- Familiar with DataDog;
- Experience with Docker, and Kubernetes.

**Responsibilities**:
- Lead the performance test efforts within the organization, sharing your knowledge of performance testing methods and tools and establishing self-sufficient quality processes;
- Establish and provide transparent metrics, via application monitoring, which will help the team to understand the current performance metrics, KPIs, and health of their applications and features;
- Continuously improve the performance testing strategy for manual and automated testing by proposing and implementing comprehensive testing solutions (method and tools);
- Participate in problem-solving, solution design, and planning sessions for all initiatives and experiments within the scope of the team, questioning unclear requirements to help eliminate ambiguities and mismatches.