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POSITION OVERVIEW The Senior/Performance test specialist will be responsible for driving existing production performance inefficiencies to resolution, as well as working closely with both product and engineering teams to ensure new products meet the performance demands of our customers. Analysis, design and implementation of tests, providing data supporting design assumptions, and verifying the requirements have been met, will also be an important part of your role. In addition, your contribution to a performance engineering culture, ensuring engineers are building in performance during the design phase is key to success. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES
• Deep-dive production performance metrics, as well as performance test analysis, to identify system bottlenecks, define system capacity, and compare benchmarks
• Work with the CloudOps team to understand / clarify performance related issues / conditions, then work with SMEs to identify solutions to address issues
• Contribute to the delivery of quality product by engineering teams, as it relates to performance, stability, scalability, and reliability
• Advise engineering teams on scalability and performance strategies
• Partner with database engineer to design/build/execute performance tests
• Develop automated performance execution and monitoring solutions / tools
• Gather detailed performance requirements and measurements to be validated
• Drive the analysis, design, and development of a performance initiatives
• Be a key contributor in developing a data-driven performance test suite
• Assist in maintaining and provisioning performance test environments, including populating performance environments with appropriate test data and code versions
• Understand the performance risk assessment and analysis of product deliverable to clearly define performance goals and develop a comprehensive test strategy
• Plan, scope, schedule and implement performance testing initiatives
• Consult with development subject matter experts (SMEs) to define the metrics of interest and make testing efforts relevant
• Advocate of high-quality software performance and help to communicate the big picture and solutions/recommendations in an inspiring way to peers and cross functional groups
Required:
• Expert level experience in monitoring tools (New Relic,AppDynamics, SQL Server Monitor, Dynatrace )
• Strong experience with programming and scripting languages (Java, Python, R )
• Strong experience in JMeter, LoadRunner
• Knowledge of SQL with the ability to create SQL performance sets and analyze results
• Understand systems environments like shared resources, components and services, CPU, memory, storage, network, etc.
• Ability to analyze and identify potential performance bottlenecks
• Ability to interpret and draw system diagrams
• Experience working with containers, cloud, virtualization, and configuration management
• Understanding of Azure and/or AWS cloud concepts and performance
• Firm understanding of software engineering design patterns and anti-patterns
Preferred:
• Algorithm Design in an asset
• Knowledge of statistics
Experience Required:
• 8 plus years of experience in Software development with focus on Performance engineering & testing in Continuous Integration, Continuous testing environment
Education
• Bachelor s degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Master s Degree
Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company comprised of Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies businesses that are recognized leaders in attractive markets. With 2017 revenues of $6.7 billion, Fortive s well-known brands hold leading positions in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution. Fortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington and employs a team of more than 26,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world. Our team grows by tackling challenges that accelerate progress and further their careers. With a culture rooted in continuous improvement, the core of our company s operating model is the Fortive Business System. For more information please visit: www.fortive.com .With more than 1,300 clients and 1.6 million users, Intelex Technologies, ULC is a global leader in environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) management software. Since 1992 its scalable, web-based platform and applications have helped clients across all industries improve business performance, mitigate organization-wide risk, and ensure sustained compliance with internationally accepted standards (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001) and regulatory requirements. Intelex is one of North America s fastest-growing tech companies who has recently been recognized as a Great Place to Work for over 7 years, Best Workplace in Technology, Best Workplace for Millennials and Canadian HR Team for fewer than 500 employees and has been recipient of Waterstone s Most Admired Corporate Cultures award, and Deloitte s Best Managed Companies award. For more information, visit https://www.intelex.com/careers or see what our employees are saying by following our #ProudIntelexian hashtag.Apply Now,

Keyskills :
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