Position: Senior Performance Engineer
Company: Inscale
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y

**Responsibilities**
We are currently assisting Napier to extend a testing team in Kiev, Ukraine.
We are looking for the experienced Senior Performance Engineer who will ensure the quality of software and be involved into all stages of SDLC/STLC and will closely work with development teams in Kyiv and London and product owner to ensure the deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Participate in development and implementation Performance Testing strategy, including tooling, processes, and frameworks.
• Work with project teams to ensure that system performance requirements, scalability expectations, and solution designs are clearly understood and testable.
• Understand complex, large scale systems in test and production environments such as cloud,  containers and configurations.
• Evaluate resource usage, speed, availability, response times, scalability and reliability.
• Enrich CI/CD pipeline with automated performance tests to evaluate performance degradation/elevation over time
• Participate actively/follow Agile / Scrum development methodology - daily standups, development estimation, tasking, etc.
• Meet deadlines and manage multiple/dynamic priorities
• Work on the continuous improvement of team processes and quality assurance procedures

**Qualifications**
Must Have:
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in Performance testing and knowledge of product performance testing concepts, methodologies, and techniques.
• Experience in developing performance testing scripts for Cloud or MS Azure based products and execution using tools like Locust or JMeter or Gatling or any home-grown testing platform along with Python/Java or other languages.
• Experience in planning and designing performance tests for load, stress, spike, scalability, and volume testing.
• Must be able to run platform/application performance testing end-to-end from requirements and addressing planning, scripting, test executions and result analysis.
• Must have good experience using server and network monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Proficient in analysis of performance testing results to present to business partners, product teams, operations, etc.
• Experience with analyzing and generating reports and metrics.
• Be proactively able to identify problems, report issues, discuss solutions and follow up deliverables/deadlines

Nice to Have:
• Experience with Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Mesos/Marathon, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark
• Security/Penetration Testing
• Kubernetes and Podman experience

Soft Skills:
• Ability to work as a part of international team spanning several time zones
• Excellent communication skills, analytical and troubleshooting abilities
• Upper-Intermediate level of English
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to align own activities with project requirements seamlessly
• Be proactive