Senior Performance Testing Engineer

Cognizant; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Performance Testing Engineer to join their QEA Team in Vancouver. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance testing tools and methodologies, with a focus on identifying system bottlenecks and collaborating across teams. This hybrid role requires a combination of technical expertise and effective communication skills to ensure optimal system performance.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of hands-on experience in performance testing.
• 5+ years with performance testing tools like JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Strong background in performance tuning of enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance and test scripts to simulate real-world scenarios.
• Analyze and resolve critical application issues and performance tuning.
• Provide detailed performance test reports and recommendations.

Skills

Performance testing

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Chaos engineering

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

Gatling

K6

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

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We are seeking a skilled Senior Performance Testing Engineer to join our QEA Team. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in performance testing tools and methodologies, a keen eye for identifying system bottlenecks, and the ability to work cross-functionally with developers, architects, and business stakeholders.

About Cognizant’s QEA Practice

We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients including 50+ clients in the Fortune 100. We bring industry-leading vision and expertise to help with the Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant!

In This Role, You Will

• Develop performance and test scripts to simulate real world scenarios.
• Develop performance designs, test strategies and plans. Identify performance bottlenecks across all tiers, components, layers.
• Analysis and resolution of critical and complex application issues (crashes, hung threads, memory leaks, etc.) and performance tuning based on RCA.
• Conduct Proof of Concept for engineering and testing tools, and demonstrate feasibility of implementing the solution, with business justifications.
• Provide detailed performance test reports and recommendations for improvement to project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore resources and ensure alignment on priorities.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed (required Skills)

• Overall 10-15 years of hands-on experience in performance testing and engineering.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience on tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, K6 etc. Have an eye to detail in identifying the pattern, troubleshooting complex performance issues, profiling, finding memory leaks and identifying/actively providing suggestions in fixing them.
• Strong technical background in performance tuning and optimization of enterprise applications, distributed systems, middleware and sql and no-sql databases.
• Experience with integrating performance testing / monitoring into CI/CD Pipelines with GitLab.
• Experience with Chaos testing / engineering tools, such as Gremlin, Litmus, Chaos Monkey, Chaos Toolkit, AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS).
• Hands on experience of HA and DR simulations.
• Strong proficiency in any one of Industry standard chaos engineering tools (Chaos Monkey, Chaos Toolkit or Gremlin or Litmus, etc.).
• Understand the architecture of applications and technology stack to recommend appropriate strategies and ensure the system performance is within defined SLAs.
• In-depth understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization technologies (such as Docker and Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Resiliency design pattern and its best practices – Circuit breaker, Timeout/ Time limit, Retry, Bulkhead, Fall back etc.
  
  

What Will Help You Stand Out (preferred Skills)

• Retail industry experience preferred.
  
  

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working Arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a Cognizant or client office in Vancouver location. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

We regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between CAD 90,000 – 110,500 per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial well-being.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Business Consulting and Services

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