Performance Engineer

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“NOTE: If selected for this position, you are required to perform ALL work onsite, based on the client’s specified hybrid work schedule (currently onsite 3 days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).”

SAP Performance Engineer

Austin, TX

For this role, we are looking for passionate performance engineers with excellent technical and communication skills.

This role provides you opportunities to work on Performance testing of various software applications and technologies in many business segments.

This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong programming and communication skills.

As a Performance Engineer, you'll need to work with development engineers and functional analysts, understand new cutting edge software, and identify performance tuning opportunities.

You'll work on emerging technologies like BTP as you design and conduct performance tests.

You should have in-depth knowledge and experience of performance testing, troubleshooting and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Define, develop, and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.

• Work in cross-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.

• Use profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and conduct root cause analysis.

• Devise and run experiments to evaluate the performance impacts of system changes.

• Plan and execute performance tests using automated environments, analyze results.

• Participate in architecture and design reviews, ensuring quality in cross-team engineering efforts.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on software testing experience.

• Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.

• Proficiency in programming languages (Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).

• Experience with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, SoapUI, Postman).

• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, RESTful APIs, and performance-tuning SQL queries.

• Extensive hands-on experience with JVM tuning techniques.

• Experience with performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics).

• Ability to efficiently use profiling tools to identify bottlenecks.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.

• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

• Expertise in SAP BTP platform optimization and its components (API management, SAP Integration Suite, etc.).

• Knowledge of BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration (SDI) and SCP iOS SDK mobile app performance testing.

• Experience with application & database monitoring in SAP BTP using Kibana, HANA DB cockpit.

• Understanding of machine learning algorithms and O-Notation.

• Proficient in relational and in-memory databases.

• Code management experience using Git.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field.

• Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect or GCP Associate Cloud Engineer are a plus.

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