Position: Senior Performance Test Engineer
Company: N-iX
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our customer is an innovative, fast-growing company and the premier provider of Risk-Based Monitoring and Data Quality Oversight solutions to clinical research organizations. Products enable both risk planning and operational risk monitoring, and utilize advanced statistical algorithms to determine the quality of clinical trial data both during and following study execution. We are looking outstanding candidates with strong data analytics aptitude and a passion for delivery excellence, to help drive customer success and broad adoption of solutions.

**SCOPE:**
- The Senior Performance Tester is responsible for the performance test framework, and supports the development & execution of performance tests. Together with the Test Engineering Manager, the Senior Performance Tester develops the approach and strategy for Performance Testing.

**Responsibilities:**
- Ownership of the Performance Testing framework and tooling - build and maintenance
- Setting up, coaching and promoting best practices in Performance across Engineering teams
- Execution of Performance Tests for CluePoints’ products – to identify issues and bottlenecks which may affect the performance
- Ensuring that our applications meet performance requirements, also in the reliability area
- Working closely with our development and operations teams to identify and resolve performance issues,
- Ensure applications are able to handle the expected workload and user traffic.
- Working with relevant stakeholders to identify and implement needed improvements and to optimise system performance, (e.g.database tuning and code optimisations)
- Reproduction of performance issues from the customers side and cooperating with stakeholders to fix these

**Requirements:**
- 3+ years of experience using performance testing tools, such as; (Gatling, LoadRunner, Blazemeter, k6, Locust or Jmeter)
- Experience with monitoring tools; (DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic or AppDynamics)
- Kubernetes, Docker experience
- Experience building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines with the tools like; (GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Scripting using one or more of the following languages (Python, Ansible, Bash, JavaScript)
- Experience with performance tuning, scalability and capacity planning

**Nice to have:**
- SQL knowledge
- Test automation experience (Cypress)
- Knowledge of data visualization tools (Kibana, Power BI, Grafana)

**Qualifications:**
- Proven track record in Performance Testing, minimum 5 years of experience
- Product based B2B SaaS / Scale up/ Startup Experience
- Knowledge of heavily regulated environments EG (Telco, Banking, Pharma, Healthcare)
- Excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written
- Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Assertive with the ability to take ownership of the job and to work autonomously
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Open-minded, team player
- Strong analytical problem solving-skills, attention to detail, ability to think out of the box
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Masters degree (Business or IT) or equivalent through experience in a related role

We offer:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Paid vacation days, sick leaves, and days off
- Healthcare & Sport program
- Medical insurance
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings