Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking Performance Test Engineers to join an opportunity out of Suitland, MD. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of application design, infrastructure, and operations such that the senior performance engineer can be a leader in the organization within the test and integration team for the products they have responsibility.

This is a hybrid on-site opportunity working 2-3x a week in-office.

Responsibilities of the Performance Test engineer

• Must have hands-on have expert knowledge of performance/load testing tools.

• Analyze performance problems in complex applications and suggest remediation strategies.

• Assist in the development of application standards (coding, logging, performance)

• Experience with writing scripts in Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, VBScript, or a Linux/Unix/Windows shell scripting language

• general understanding of data storage, encoding, encryption, data transformation, and related concepts

Requirements of the Performance Test engineer

• 5 years of experience using automated test tools for Functional and/or Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability testing using LoadRunner, WebTest, JMeter, Watir, Fit, FitNesse, Ruby or others

• programming experience, with C#, Java, Ruby, or C++

• SQL experience and an ability to write intermediate to complex SQL code

• Experience with Jmeter, Performance Center, Dynatrace, and Java

Compensation of the Performance Test engineer

• $110,000 - 145,000 depending on experience

• Full Benefits

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