Performance Tester

Digital Links Inc
Singers Glen, VA, United States
9 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Software Quality Computer Programming Databases Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP) Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Apache JMeter Python (Programming Language) Load Testing Prometheus Scala (Programming Language)
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TypeScript Web Services Datadog Grafana Caching Blazemeter Restful APIs Splunk New Relic (SaaS) Appdynamics Dynatrace Elk Stack Microservices

Requirements

  • 4+ years of Software Quality Engineering experience, including 3 4+ years focused on Performance and Load Testing.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Apache JMeter, BlazeMeter, and Splunk.
  • Ability to build and maintain reusable, parameterized performance test suites from scratch.

Technical Skills

  • Strong programming/scripting experience in Java, Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
  • Solid understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, web services, and microservices.
  • Experience testing asynchronous, message-driven, or event-driven applications.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring/APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, or ELK Stack.
  • Strong knowledge of performance engineering concepts, including throughput, concurrency, response-time percentiles, latency, scalability, and bottleneck analysis.
  • Experience identifying and troubleshooting performance issues related to JVM/GC, thread pools, connection pools, databases, caching, and application infrastructure.
  • Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments and analyzing system-level metrics.

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