Lead Performance Engineer

Job Description

Job PurposeWorking within the Quality Engineering (QE) team, the Lead Performance Engineer (LPE) is responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, scalability and reliability of a suite of products. The LPE collaborates with multiple stakeholders to develop a fit for purpose performance engineering and testing strategy that covers all aspects of the product, including cross program dependencies. The LPE drives a performance-driven culture and enables the development community to test earlier and test faster, thereby enabling faster time to market and built-in qualityJob Outline:- Participate in all phases of the Performance Engineering lifecycle Requirement Gathering, Design, Development, Scripting, Execution, Analysis, Troubleshooting, Tuning, Reporting- Collaborate with Architecture, Solution Design and Development teams to design for Performance.- Understand Non Functional Requirements and translate them into specific Design and Testing goals. Effectively capture and build a strategy to validate NFRs - Test Plan and test Strategy- Understand applications, including the underlying architecture and technology stack, to recommend appropriate strategies and ensure the system performance is within defined SLAs- Establish a Performance Testing Framework for Component Tests and E2E Tests- Evaluate Cross Program Dependencies and conduct a thorough impact analysis that needs to be incorporated in the performance testing strategy- Evaluate testability of Features/Solution. Work with architecture and design to build testability into the architecture- Ensure NFRs are defined for Features and Components, and ensuring every sprint team has a NFRs in their backlog.- Work with Site Reliabilities Engineers to resolve, diagnose and identify tuning opportunities.- Collaborate with the Architects and Product Owners to define the Workload models for the application and update/refine the workload model.Qualifications & ExperienceInformation Technology.Other : 8+ Years Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) :- Degree in Computer Science or similar Experience in Performance Engineering, including testing, profiling and tuning, for highly available and scalable mission critical applications.- 3+ years of experience in leading the performance engineering practice for a suite of products, including Web, Mobile and Desktop applications/solutions Experience working with stakeholders across IT and Business to analyse and interpret business requirements, and translate it to technical requirements .- Experience working in Organizations/functions with a large suite of mission critical applications/solutions Knowledge/skills: Technical skills: Mandatory - Highly skilled at Performance Engineering, profiling and tuning.- Proficient with APM tools such App dynamics, DynaTrace, New Relic etc. as well as Code Profilers to detect performance issues .- Expertise in reviewing architecture and design principles, and providing recommendations for improving application/system performance.- Advanced knowledge of architecture and design concepts, including latest trends in technology- Highly skilled in commercial and open source load testing tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Centre, jmeter, Gatling, Taurus etc.- Expertise in client side performance analysis tools like WebPageTest, GTmetrix, YSlow and other tools to asses Page Performance .- Sound knowledge of log analytics tools like Splunk for Infrastructure and Application monitoring .- Advanced knowledge in Performance Testing Apps on Mobile Devices and Simulators.- Thorough knowledge of android profiler and IOS instruments .- Deep knowledge of Relational and No-SQL Databases, and identifying and fixing DB related issues. Ability to understand and analyse AWR reports .- Vast knowledge in building Workload models for complex systems using analytics and user-pattern analysis .- Hands-on operational experience working with UNIX and Windows environments, and troubleshooting environment, OS or configuration related issues .- Expertise in working with large cloud service platforms and solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.) .- Thorough knowledge of DevOps and how Continuous Performance Testing can be implemented using Load testing Tools, APM tools, code profilers etc. .- Proficient in at least one coding/scripting language Preferred .- Knowledge of Chaos engineering, and experience working with chaos testing tools like chaos monkey, Gremlin and other cloud native tools.- Good understanding of networks and troubleshooting network issues. Experience using packet sniffers and network monitoring tools to troubleshoot and fix network related issues Soft skills:- Strong oral and written communication skills with demonstrable experience communicating with all technology partners, be it architecture, design, engineering, operations or infrastructure management .- Must be able to work both independently and within a group .- Excellent technical, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.- Ability to Multi-task, Prioritize and Manage time .- Ability to adapt and learn quickly in a complex and dynamic environment

Keyskills :
Splunk Coding Devops Performance Engineering Testing unix Networks Databases Profiling Design architecture

About Company

the Emirates Group employs over 103,363 staff from more than 160 nationalities. The Emirates Group’s extensive and diverse international portfolio includes the world’s largest international airline, Emirates, and one of the largest combined air services provider in the world, dnata. For the year financial year ending 2017-18, the Emirates Group posted a profit of AED 4.1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion).